The Health department officials in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district identified 15 persons on March 31 who had attended a Tablighi Jamaat gathering at Markaz Nizamuddin in Delhi. They identified them in Srikalahasti town of Chittoor district. Health department officials have shifted them to Sri Venkateswara Ramnarain Ruia Government General Hospital in Tirupati on the fear that they might have been infected with coronavirus. This came after several people who had participated in the religious gathering in Delhi tested positive for the coronavirus. Six persons from the neighbouring state Telangana who attended a religious prayer meeting at the Tablighi Jamaat headquarters, or the Markaz, from March 13-15 in Delhi's Nizamuddin, have died of coronavirus. According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the total number of COVID-19 active cases rose to 1238 in India and 35 deaths.