Eleven foreign nationals staying in a mosque in Ranchi were isolated.

Ranchi police detained 11 foreign nationals from a Mosque in Ranchi and sent them to a quarantine center at Musabani.

Ranchi police detained 11 foreign nationals from a Mosque in Ranchi and sent them to a quarantine center at Musabani. On March 24, 2020, 11 foreign nationals were apprehended from the Rargaon Mosque in the Tamar area of ​​Ranchi, amid the threat of COVID-19 infection. Bundu DSP Ajay Kumar had received information on some foreigners hiding in a Mosque, without concerned authority's knowledge. Tamar police station in-charge Chandrashekhar Azad along with CO Kamal Kishore Singh and BDO Rahul Kumar investigated the case. It revealed that among the 11- three were from China and four each from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. After seizing their passports and visas, authorities quarantined them at the Musabani Police Training Centre. An investigation into the matter is ongoing.

The government of India announced a nationwide lockdown for 21 days as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 pandemic in India on March 24, 2020. India has reported 4,56,183 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 14,476 deaths as of June 24, 2020.

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