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Johannesburg: Religious gatherings can simply be silent carriers of coronavirus, especially among its asymptomatic carriers.
The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) analyzed knowledge of an organization of South Africans who had returned from Pakistan in April, where they attended a festival, and published the effects in the August communiqué on communicable diseases.
When they landed in the country, they were taken to quarantine sites where they were edited for Covid-19, eleven out of 85 (13%) after being quarantined for 8 days, the 11 were asymptomatic at the time of the 14 days. after repatriation.
“Of the 65 returnees who met the inclusion criteria, 10 who tested positive for Sars-CoV-2 were between the age of 18 and 24 and were all men. Six of the 10 cases reported that they shared a housing area with five to ten other people while attending Jamaat in Pakistan. »
He said physical estating and hand disinfection were a non-unusual practice while in Pakistan, let alone in devout meetings.
The NCID warned that, as in Bloemfontein’s Covid-19 cluster epidemic, as well as in South Korea, devout meetings can be a factor in the spread of the disease.
Earlier this year, more than 60 people who attended the Church of the Divine Restoration tested positive. In Seoul, the capital of South Korea, Covid19’s worst organization, up to 5,200 cases, came here from the Church of Jesus Shincheonji.
“Religious gatherings continue to provide opportunities for continued transmission of sarsCoV-2 virus. The South African government’s regulation that no meeting, devoted or not, comes with more than 50 participants, is an attempt to restrict such broadcast events, through social estating.
“Although all reported cases are asymptomaticArray . . . lack of data on situations and the era of quarantine in PakistanArray . . . makes it difficult to draw conclusions. However, the fact that some of the cases eligible for the interview reported a history of smoking or were active smokers suggests that smoking could be a significant but debatable threat factor.
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