Malaysia says Islamic event linked to virus cases, days after 250,000 gathered in Pakistan

[Turingsage]

One thing i can confirm with certainty.... Every Pakistani mosque i have ever visited, their carpets are epicenter of all sort of viruses. People have dirt dripping from their feet and they step on the carpet, right where people put their nose. Lack of sunlight and fresh air multiply those germs.
Even worst are the grave worship centers, their no cleaning is observed and junkies are in abundance. People put their nose and heads at dirty streets and passages.



Al-Jazeera can go to hell... they are mostly lying about Pakistan, they are friends of Imran Khan so this is enough said.

GAZA CITY, Palestine

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed the first two cases of coronavirus in the Gaza Strip.

Two people tested positive for the virus after returning from Pakistan, health official Yusuf Abo al-Reish told a press conference in Gaza City early Sunday.

He said the two patients have been quarantined after crossing the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt on Thursday.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/latest-on-...nfirm-first-coronavirus-cases-in-gaza/1774636


And reuters CTV Haeretz etcetcetcetcetcetcetc just google.

All liers ??????

 

[alee92nawaz]

KUALA LUMPUR: Over half of Malaysia's 428 cases of coronavirus were linked to an international Islamic gathering held last month, its health ministry said Sunday, just two days after hundreds of thousands of worshippers gathered for the annual Tablighi Ijtema congregation in eastern Pakistan.

The Southeast Asian nation announced a spike of 190 new infections over the weekend, mostly linked to a global Islamic event attended by almost 20,000 people. "Of the 428 cases, 243 are participants from the religious event in Sri Petaling mosque," Noor Hisham Abdullah, the director-general of the health ministry, told AFP.

Authorities said participants at the gathering — from February 27 to March 1 — came from Bangladesh, Brunei, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Around 14,500 of the participants were Malaysian.

Brunei reported 10 new cases on Saturday, raising the total to 50, most in people who attended the Malaysia gathering. Singapore has also announced cases linked to the event.

On Friday, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin warned Malaysia of a second wave of infections spread and urged people to avoid mass gatherings.
250,000 pilgrims in Pakistan despite virus warnings
Ahmad Farouk, a lecturer at Monash University, told AFP that authorities should shut down mosques for at least two weeks to contain the spread of the virus.

Islamic worshippers board a truck before their departure from the annual Tablighi Ijtema religious gathering in Raiwind on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, March 13, 2020. AFP/Arif Ali


At 250,000 people had congregated in camps near Lahore since Wednesday earlier this week for the annual, five-day Tablighi Ijtema congregation, ignoring government warnings that such events could propagate the novel coronavirus pandemic.

However, organisers late Thursday had to curtail the annual event — which had drawn people from across the country — but cited rainy weather as the cause for the early closure.

"Most of the people have returned to their homes but still tens of thousands of people are here. They will return today," one of the event's organisers Ehsanullah, who goes by one name, told AFP on Friday.

'Proceed as planned'
Organisers of the Tablighi Ijtema seemed to ignore government advice to postpone, with Ehsanullah saying: "The government asked us to cancel the gathering because of the coronavirus but our elders and organisers decided that the gathering will proceed as planned."

The movement was founded by religious scholars more than five decades ago and focuses exclusively on preaching Islam.

It usually sees hundreds of camps and sub-camps set up on a dusty site outside Lahore to accommodate people from across Pakistan, giving the gathering a festival feel.

Islamic worshippers board a truck before their departure from the annual Tablighi Ijtema religious gathering in Raiwind on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, March 13, 2020. AFP/Arif Ali

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday, however, had asked people not to worry. "Thank God, the coronavirus pandemic is under control in Pakistan," he had said.

"The border needs to be closed for the next 15 days. The days of the Raiwind gathering have been reduced and Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar informed that arrangements have been made in Dera Ghazi Khan," the foreign minister had said.

Punjab reports first case, Sindh confirms 18
Punjab reported its first case of coronavirus earlier today (Sunday) almost 20 days after Pakistan reported the first two cases in Sindh on February 26. The provincial chief secretary also announced that section 144 had been imposed for at least three weeks after new cases were reported in the country.

The pandemic — which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan on December 1, 2019 — has so far infected 53 confirmed cases in Pakistan but there have been no deaths as officials have tested fewer than 500 potential cases in the country of about 215 million, where health care is frequently inadequate.

Sindh's tally rose to 35 on Sunday, as 13 new cases were confirmed in Sukkur and another five in Karachi. One case was also reported from Islamabad.

Balochistan has at least 10 cases and Gilgit-Baltistan has three. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has yet to report a case.

Among cities, Karachi remains the worst-affected city with a total of 22 cases. Of the rest, Islamabad has four, whereas Quetta and Hyderabad have one each.

Seven people were kept under quarantine in Taftan.

Public gatherings banned globally
Many countries are advising against large gatherings in a bid to slow the spread of the highly communicable virus. Some nations — like France and Italy — have banned them altogether.

The federal government has issued orders for closure of Pakistan's western borders with Iran and Afghanistan but provinces were also forced to act independently, banning public gatherings and shutting down schools.

Schools in three of Pakistan's four provinces are closed for March and authorities are conducting basic screenings of passengers arriving by air from overseas. Sindh said its schools would reopen in June, effectively terming the closure as 'summer vacations'.


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A very careless nations....all are equally responsible. Malaysia should have controlled its national not to attend such big gathering. But blame Pakistan is not correct .

We are at a huge risk because of this ijtema. We should trace everyone. We aren't realizing. How many mullahs are hiding gid knows where. I hope they are fine.

 

[HAIDER]

We are at a huge risk because of this ijtema. We should trace everyone. We aren't realizing. How many mullahs are hiding gid knows where. I hope they are fine.

All religious gathering cause big havoc , one sick is enough to spread this virus ...

Mass Religious Gathering In Pakistan Leads To Fresh Concerns Over COVID-19 Spread

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March 23, 20201:21 PM ET

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Tablighi Jamaat members prepare to leave after a mass religious gathering outside Lahore on March 13.

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The first two cases of coronavirus infection in the Gaza Strip, a war-shattered territory with a fragile health system, were confirmed over the weekend in Palestinian men who attended a mass religious gathering 10 days ago in Pakistan, according to an Islamabad-based Palestinian diplomat.

The diplomat, Ahmed Rabi, says the men were part of a two-day gathering that ended March 12 in eastern Pakistan. The gathering of the Tablighi Jamaat, a global conservative Muslim missionary group, brought together tens of thousands of Muslim preachers from some 80 countries and has raised concerns about the virus' spread in Pakistan and beyond.

The group, founded nearly a century ago in India, has millions of followers and proselytizes around the world. Preachers on missions sleep in mosques and make door-to-door visits.

A longtime Pakistani Tablighi Jamaat member, Arif Rana, said the gathering was canceled on March 12 because of rain — attendees sleep in the open. But Azhar Mashwani, on the Punjab chief minister's staff, said on Twitter that it ended because of coronavirus fears. Most attendees were Pakistani, but at least a few thousand came from other countries, Rana told NPR.

criminal carelessness" because "they knew that one of them had symptoms and they kept on roaming around."

Concerns have also been raised in Southeast Asia about infection after a Tablighi Jamaat gathering outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in late February and early March. Malaysian media reported that more than half of the country's known coronavirus cases were traced to the gathering. Preachers who attended also spread the virus to Brunei and Thailand, the New York Times reported, saying the gathering created "the largest known viral vector in Southeast Asia."

Tablighi Jamaat leaders in Pakistan had dismissed earlier calls by the Punjab provincial government to cancel their event, saying they believed those calls were motivated by anti-religious bias.

"Every other year, something or other happens which makes people afraid of getting together," Rana said. "We just focus on action, on deeds, and Allah protects."

Now, he said, for the first time in the group's history, they were curtailing activities such as weekly meetings, "until thing[s get] better."

 

[CrazyZ]

All religious gathering cause big havoc , one sick is enough to spread this virus ...

Mass Religious Gathering In Pakistan Leads To Fresh Concerns Over COVID-19 Spread

• 
  
  

March 23, 20201:21 PM ET

DIAA HADID

FacebookInstagramTwitter

Tablighi Jamaat members prepare to leave after a mass religious gathering outside Lahore on March 13.

Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images
The first two cases of coronavirus infection in the Gaza Strip, a war-shattered territory with a fragile health system, were confirmed over the weekend in Palestinian men who attended a mass religious gathering 10 days ago in Pakistan, according to an Islamabad-based Palestinian diplomat.

The diplomat, Ahmed Rabi, says the men were part of a two-day gathering that ended March 12 in eastern Pakistan. The gathering of the Tablighi Jamaat, a global conservative Muslim missionary group, brought together tens of thousands of Muslim preachers from some 80 countries and has raised concerns about the virus' spread in Pakistan and beyond.

The group, founded nearly a century ago in India, has millions of followers and proselytizes around the world. Preachers on missions sleep in mosques and make door-to-door visits.

A longtime Pakistani Tablighi Jamaat member, Arif Rana, said the gathering was canceled on March 12 because of rain — attendees sleep in the open. But Azhar Mashwani, on the Punjab chief minister's staff, said on Twitter that it ended because of coronavirus fears. Most attendees were Pakistani, but at least a few thousand came from other countries, Rana told NPR.

criminal carelessness" because "they knew that one of them had symptoms and they kept on roaming around."

Concerns have also been raised in Southeast Asia about infection after a Tablighi Jamaat gathering outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in late February and early March. Malaysian media reported that more than half of the country's known coronavirus cases were traced to the gathering. Preachers who attended also spread the virus to Brunei and Thailand, the New York Times reported, saying the gathering created "the largest known viral vector in Southeast Asia."

Tablighi Jamaat leaders in Pakistan had dismissed earlier calls by the Punjab provincial government to cancel their event, saying they believed those calls were motivated by anti-religious bias.

"Every other year, something or other happens which makes people afraid of getting together," Rana said. "We just focus on action, on deeds, and Allah protects."

Now, he said, for the first time in the group's history, they were curtailing activities such as weekly meetings, "until thing[s get] better."

There are no direct flights between Gaza and Pakistan. There travel history had to include other nations. They could have picked up the infection along the way. Rubbish journalism.

 

[El Sidd]

Thank You Haider and Soros News Network.

 

[Turingsage]

There are no direct flights between Gaza and Pakistan. There travel history had to include other nations. They could have picked up the infection along the way. Rubbish journalism.

Since it takes about 5-15 days after exposure to detect infection it can only come from pakistan. Unless these guys took 15 days to get home spending time for MANY days exposed to covid-19 infected country

Malaysia also confirms Pakistan as the vector

 

[El Sidd]

Since it takes about 5-15 days after exposure to detect infection it can only come from pakistan. Unless these guys took 15 days to get home spending time for MANY days exposed to covid-19 infected country

Malaysia also confirms Pakistan as the vector

I wonder if you ever met the wonderful couple called logic and reason.

A country like Malaysia with its booming economy has a lot of movement going on and is well connected unlike Pakistan which has to celebrate arrival of British Airways as travelers outnumber the servicing airlines.

Unless you believe the virus is islamic to match your terror matas Nazi propaganda I am calling BS on your post.

 

[CrazyZ]

Since it takes about 5-15 days after exposure to detect infection it can only come from pakistan. Unless these guys took 15 days to get home spending time for MANY days exposed to covid-19 infected country

Malaysia also confirms Pakistan as the vector

None sense. There are only a handful of cases in the Lahore area. Most cases in Punjab are in DG khan....traced back to Shia pilgrims. These guys could of picked this up in Cairo or Tel Aviv....they could have even gone to Iran....I don't know their specific travel history.

 

[nahtanbob]

One thing i can confirm with certainty.... Every Pakistani mosque i have ever visited, their carpets are epicenter of all sort of viruses. People have dirt dripping from their feet and they step on the carpet, right where people put their nose. Lack of sunlight and fresh air multiply those germs.
Even worst are the grave worship centers, their no cleaning is observed and junkies are in abundance. People put their nose and heads at dirty streets and passages.

are the carpets ever cleaned ?