Pilgrimage and COVID-19: The risk among returnees from Muslim countries

COVID-19 has now spread to become a pandemic. We confirmed six Muslim pilgrims with COVID-19 among the passengers on a flight from Pakistan, following a border inspection in Guangzhou, China. We subsequently alerted home countries to prepare early in order to manage the risk from returning pilgrims....

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Autores principales: Gu, Yuzhou, Lu, Jianyun, Yang, Zhicong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7192071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32360943
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.04.066
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description COVID-19 has now spread to become a pandemic. We confirmed six Muslim pilgrims with COVID-19 among the passengers on a flight from Pakistan, following a border inspection in Guangzhou, China. We subsequently alerted home countries to prepare early in order to manage the risk from returning pilgrims. The resulting strategies of inspection and quarantine needed to cover those returning from all Muslim countries, not just Saudi Arabia.
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spelling pubmed-71920712020-04-30 Pilgrimage and COVID-19: The risk among returnees from Muslim countries Gu, Yuzhou Lu, Jianyun Yang, Zhicong Int J Infect Dis Article COVID-19 has now spread to become a pandemic. We confirmed six Muslim pilgrims with COVID-19 among the passengers on a flight from Pakistan, following a border inspection in Guangzhou, China. We subsequently alerted home countries to prepare early in order to manage the risk from returning pilgrims. The resulting strategies of inspection and quarantine needed to cover those returning from all Muslim countries, not just Saudi Arabia. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020-06 2020-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7192071/ /pubmed/32360943 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.04.066 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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