Karnataka had ignored requests from Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to open the border for people in Kasaragod who need urgent medical help at the nearest hospitals Mangaluru and Manipal.
Three days after being 'untraceable', Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Saad has released an audio recording, presumably shot in a studio without anyone coughing in the audience, appealing to attendees to follow authorities and cooperate with the doctors.
For many years, religious hardliners in Iran have criticised modern medical science, instead, they have claimed of ability to cure any illness through Islamic remedies.