Two newborn babies have died after hospitals refused to admit their Muslim mothers amid a surge in coronavirus-related Islamophobia in India.

In Jharkhand state, a Muslim woman miscarried after she was barred from receiving treatment in MGM Hospital in the city of Jamshedpur.

Rizwana Khatun, 30, had rushed to the hospital after she began bleeding. Accused of spreading coronavirus, she was also beaten and asked to clean up her own blood.

Earlier this month, a baby died in the Bharatpur district of Rajasthan after a government hospital refused to admit the Muslim mother.

Members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have blamed the spread of coronavirus on a Muslim missionary group meeting in New Delhi in mid-March.

Thousands of attendees traveled for the Tablighi Jamaat event and failed to disband, despite the Delhi Government restricting gatherings of over 50 people.

They then returned home to India’s periphery, some taking the virus with them.

The Indian Government has said 30 per cent of its 15,712 coronavirus cases are linked to the meeting, but there has been widespread underreporting of cases.