HYDERABAD: Telangana on Monday reported five more Covid-19 deaths, taking the state's tally from one to six in the span of three days and linking all the victims to a religious congregation in the Delhi headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat in mid-March.In a statement issued late evening, the chief minister’s office said the deceased had visited Nizamuddin in Delhi with scores of others from Telangana to participate in the March 13-15 event.The state's first Covid-19 fatality, that of a 74-year-old man, was reported last Saturday. There were four more deaths within the next 48 hours, but these were confirmed as novel coronavirus cases only on Monday. The sixth Covid-19 death was reported in the evening.Four of the deaths so far have been in Hyderabad, one in Nizamabad and another in Gadwal district. The district collectors have constituted teams to trace other people who were part of the religious congregation in Delhi, and their primary and secondary contacts,"We want everyone who went to Delhi for the religious meet to come forward and self-report. The government will provide free treatment," the CM's office said.Officials said the sixth victim, a resident of Yousufguda in the heart of Hyderabad, had left for Delhi on March 13 with two others and attended the meet at a Nizamuddin mosque. By the time he returned to Hyderabad by the Telangana Express train on March 27, the man had developed Covid-19 symptoms."He was running a fever while still on the train. On arrival, he was admitted to a Jubilee Hills hospital with cold, cough and fever. He died in the hospital on Monday," a source said.Of the six victims so far, two were family members of a Karimnagar resident who had earlier tested positive. That person had hosted a group of Indonesian preachers who visited Karimnagar from Delhi on March 14. One member of the group was the first to test positive for Covid-19 at Gandhi hospital in Secunderabad.According to collector Shashanka, the two Karimnagar victims were asymptomatic till they were tested as part of a screening exercise. "After they tested positive, all seven members of the family, including two children, were shifted to Gandhi hospital for observation."The district authorities have urged the local population of Karimnagar town to cooperate with health staff during house-to-house visits.Karimnagar police commissioner V B Kamalasan Reddy urged everyone below the age of 35 to register with the police as volunteers. "Their services will be utilised at marketplaces to ensure that the public follow social distancing," he said.Six new Covid-19 cases were confirmed during the day, raising the state's count so far to 76.According to a health bulletin released by the government, 13 people who had earlier tested positive were discharged from the state-run Gandhi hospital on Monday. One patient had been declared cured earlier.