Three umrah ( minor haj) pilgrims from Indonesia have actually tested favorable for COVID-19 following a swab test at a hotel in Capital, the Association of Indonesia Haj and Umrah Organizers (Amphuri) reported on Thursday.
” The test results returned negative for most of the pilgrims, except for 3 of them,” Amphuri umrah department head Zaky Anshary said as quoted by kompas.com on Thursday.
The contaminated pilgrims are being quarantined for seven days following the Saudi Arabian Health Ministry’s policy for infected patients.
Other pilgrims who tested unfavorable are allowed to continue on their umrah pilgrimage. A report from Amphuri reveals that as numerous as 224 umrah pilgrims from Indonesia left to carry out miqat on Wednesday.
Zaky also reported that all umrah pilgrims from Indonesia had actually performed swab tests on Tuesday. He described that health officers went to the hotel at 6 p.m. local time. Zaky likewise specified that the program was noted on the health statement kind, which is needed to be filled out by umrah pilgrims.
Last week, Saudi Arabia announced the reopening of Capital starting on Nov. 1 for Muslims who wanted to perform umrah The kingdom began unwinding its constraints after closing its border to global pilgrims in March following the break out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As an outcome of Saudi Arabia’s choice to reopen Mecca, numerous Indonesian pilgrims departed for umrah on Sunday.
According to Zaky, Saudi Arabia currently only enabled pilgrims from Indonesia and Pakistan to go into the country for the time being. He likewise said the consulates general and the haj consul of the Indonesian Consulate General in Jeddah greeted the Indonesian pilgrims.
” Everything is based on health protocols. The airplane was not at full capacity and anybody captured taking off their masks would get a warning,” Zaky said.
Unlike the haj, for which there are specific dates based on the Islamic lunar calendar, umrah can be carried out at any time of the year. It drew in 19 million Muslims to the holy cities of Capital and Medina for haj and umrah in 2015.
Haj and umrah add US$12 billion to Saudi Arabia’s gdp (GDP) annually, accounting for 7 percent of the kingdom’s annual overall GDP.
Indonesia sent the second-largest number of umrah pilgrims in 2015 with 443,879 arrivals, according to the Saudi Haj and Umrah Ministry.
According to the Foreign Ministry, 1,758 Indonesians abroad have actually contracted COVID-19 Amongst them, 1,280 have recuperated, 155 have actually passed away and 323 are still being treated in various nations. ( dpk)
Editor’s note: This post becomes part of a public campaign by the COVID-19 task force to raise individuals’s awareness about the pandemic.
