Mass religious gatherings events and COVID-19 -easing of COVID-19 restrictions and a staged approach to scaling up the Umrah Pilgrimage

Affiliations

¹ Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: jaltawfi@yahoo.com.
² King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Al-Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Electronic address: zmemish@yahoo.com.
³ Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infection, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: a.zumla@ucl.ac.uk.

Editorial

J A Al-Tawfiq et al. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2021 Mar-Apr.

. 2021 Mar-Apr:40:101986.

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.101986. Epub 2021 Feb 7.

¹ Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: jaltawfi@yahoo.com.
² King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Al-Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Electronic address: zmemish@yahoo.com.
³ Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infection, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: a.zumla@ucl.ac.uk.

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Keywords: COVID-19; Mass gatherings religious events, Hajj; SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, restrictions, scaleup; Umrah.

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