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Saudi Arabia has been praised by the fitness government and world leaders. Archive photo
Gulf Today Report
Amid a global pandemic that continues to ravage the world, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has succeeded in 0 instances of Covid-19 after the completion of what was an abbreviated Hajj 2020, by implementing exceptional protection and fitness measures in ordinary form. Circumstances.
For its efforts, Saudi Arabia has been praised by the fitness government and world leaders for their effective navigation in what is one of the world’s largest gatherings of devotees.
Receiving praise from the World Muslim League and the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who, in congratulating the Kingdom on welcoming a secure Hajj, called this good fortune a “powerful demonstration of the types of measures that countries can and will take to adapt to the new normal.
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Government efforts to implement strict precautionary measures have been supported by the deployment of evolving crowd surveillance generation with WHO, to include monitoring fitness and generating surveillance through virtual applications.
Typically one of the largest gatherings in the world, where more than two million faithful gather in the holy city of Mecca, the Hajj pilgrimage takes place 70 days after the end of Ramadan in the Islamic month of Dhul-Hijjah.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year, for the first time in fashion history, millions of Muslims around the world have been unable to descend to the sacred sites of the sacred cities of Mecca and Medina to perform Hajj, the fifth pillar of Islam. .
The Kingdom witnessed an unprecedented pilgrimage in 2020, with the relief of the Hajj, meaning that thousands of pilgrims from inside the Kingdom were granted entry permits.
A sadness for millions of Muslims around the world perhaps, but a measure considered by the government of the Kingdom to ensure the protection and safety of global health.
The faithful over the age of 20 to 65 without chronic diseases had to apply online for a Hajj permit. The elections were made at random from a set of electronic knowledge, and all decided that pilgrims should be quarantined before the Hajj and go through PCR tests to produce two sets of negative results.
Seven per cent of those who agreed to perform Hajj in 2020 were expatriated without chronic illness, living within the Kingdom. The remaining 30% were Saudi fitness professionals and the army and corps of security workers who had recovered from Covid-19 and met fitness requirements.
This year, Hajj pilgrims had to undergo physical fitness checks and PCR tests, followed by a 7-day house quarantine. The pilgrims were then transported to Mecca and quarantined for 3 more days, followed by a momentary PCR test. Only then were those who tested negative for any of the events be allowed to begin their Hayy ritual.
Similarly, at the end of the Hajj, the returning pilgrims had to isolate themselves for 14 days, and those strict measures meant 0 instances of Covid-19 after the end of Hajj 2020.
Electronic marking
Another security measure is the electronic marking of pilgrims in their homes even before they began their Hajj adventure and arrived in the holy city of Mecca. Each pilgrim has been labeled with a bracelet designed to monitor and record their fitness and track individual quarantine, through the Tatamman app.
Tatamman has necessarily strengthened the duty of those related to the isolation of fitness while closely monitoring their fitness. The app has also provided a variety of other fitness-related services, adding booking appointments for PCR testing.
In addition, the express rituals of Hayy have been modified to ensure a social distance of at least 1.5 meters among pilgrims while praying, avoiding the Kaaba or performing other devout duties.
The congregation’s prayers, dressed in cloth masks, were permitted, and the shoulder-to-shoulder prayer in giant crowds was replaced by socially remote devotions. Pilgrims were also allowed only in constant teams of 20 with a designated fitness officer.
By playing a central role in monitoring the success of the Hajj’s public fitness, each leader was guilty of performing fitness checks twice a day for his designated group.
As a component of the enhanced measures to ensure some aptitude and safety, touching or kissing the Honourable Kaaba and the Black Stone was prohibited at the Great Mosque of Mecca.
The cleaning and disinfection of the site in the holy city of Mecca was carried out at normal intervals, with all service providers and personnel required to comply with the protocols stipulated through the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia.
A detailed set of protocols defined by the government, weeks before the hajj rituals began, including for public awareness signaling; maintain records of disinfection of sacred places and public facilities; ventilation Waste control The use of public interactive hotel appliances; food and beverage services; transport and control crowds to and from the sacred sites of the Grand Mosque, Mount Arafaa and Muzdalifah (the Sacred Grove).
Preparing science and technology
As a country that has effectively controlled a coronavirus similar to the most endemic MERS-CoV, Saudi Arabia suspended pilgrimages to the two holy cities on 26 February 2020 as an early preventive measure for global security. This was weeks before a single case of Covid-19 was reported in the Kingdom or the disease was classified as a pandemic through WHO. The effect of these initial travel restrictions has helped control the spread of the virus not only in Saudi Arabia, but also around the world.
Saudi Arabia also introduced a first-stage early precautionary formula two years earlier to warn of potential physical fitness hazards deployed to the Hajj; along with other virtual teams designed to provide strategic evidence of the dangers of public fitness in mass meetings.
These systems included command and control centers that monitored the availability of fitness facilities and the usage rate of successive Hajj seasons to enable real-time decision-making and evidence-based long-term planning.
The World Center for Mass Meetings Medicine (GCMGM) of the Ministry of Health, a WHO collaborative centre, used its team (Salem Tool for Events and Jeddah Tool for Mass Meetings) to assess the dangers of public fitness meetings. GCMGM focuses on policy-making and mass public collection management based on reinforced evidence through clinical research.
In addition, the Command and Control Center (CCC) with the National Center for Health Emergency Operations (NHEOC), as well as the Saudi Arabian Crisis Unit, the Saudi Center for Disease Prevention and Control (SaudiCDC) and the National Health Command Center (NHCC), the Ministry of Health has been operating for several years to save it from communicable and noncommunicable diseases and other health threats.
Together, the government uses analysis, practices and forecasting to inform decision-making, while largely running across sectors to interact with applicable domestic and foreign organizations and experience.
As countries emerge from the blockade and we begin to navigate a “new normal,” the good luck of the Hajj 2020 offers a credible case for the world about how to safely resume life as we know it, in a reshaped landscape.