Tokyo olympics, Hajj pilgrimage, Grand Magal of Touba and COVID-19

Van Thuan Hoang¹, Ndiaw Goumballa², Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq³, Cheick Sokhna⁴, Philippe Gautret⁵

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¹ Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France; IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France; Thai Binh University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Thai Binh, Viet Nam.
² Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France; IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France; VITROME, Campus International IRD-UCAD de L'IRD, Dakar, Senegal.
³ Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Infectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Infectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France; VITROME, Campus International IRD-UCAD de L'IRD, Dakar, Senegal.
⁵ Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France; IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France. Electronic address: philippe.gautret@ap-hm.fr.

PMID: 34052405
PMCID: PMC9759998
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102088

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Tokyo olympics, Hajj pilgrimage, Grand Magal of Touba and COVID-19

Van Thuan Hoang et al. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2021 Jul-Aug.

. 2021 Jul-Aug:42:102088.

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102088. Epub 2021 May 27.

Authors

Van Thuan Hoang¹, Ndiaw Goumballa², Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq³, Cheick Sokhna⁴, Philippe Gautret⁵

Affiliations

¹ Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France; IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France; Thai Binh University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Thai Binh, Viet Nam.
² Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France; IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France; VITROME, Campus International IRD-UCAD de L'IRD, Dakar, Senegal.
³ Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Infectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Infectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France; VITROME, Campus International IRD-UCAD de L'IRD, Dakar, Senegal.
⁵ Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France; IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France. Electronic address: philippe.gautret@ap-hm.fr.

PMID: 34052405
PMCID: PMC9759998
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102088

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**Fig. 1**
COVID-19 daily cases in Japan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Senegal, host countries of Tokyo Olympic Games, Hajj pilgrimage and Grand Magal of Touba, respectively (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/).

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