Foreigners who participated in the tabligh gathering at Masjid Jamek Sri Petaling were the source of the spread of Covid-19 to hundreds of participants, local participants were quoted as saying by The Malaysian Insight (TMI).

The local participants claimed they were free from the virus, after having gone through screening and as such, it was not fair to blame the local participants.

“I don’t think it is fair to blame us all. Some of the attendees may have their own reasons for not going to the hospital, but I can say the majority of us went for health screening...