Indonesia’s govt has determined to not rob part in this year’s hajj pilgrimage on story of of the coronavirus outbreak
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EDNA TARIGAN Linked Press
June 2, 2020, 11: 47 AM
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JAKARTA, Indonesia —
Indonesia’s govt has determined to not rob part in this year’s hajj pilgrimage on story of of the coronavirus outbreak, an decent said Tuesday.
Indonesian Spiritual Affair Minister Fachrul Razi said Saudi Arabia has not launched it’ll commence the July hajj pilgrimage to different countries, and it is too dumb to put collectively if it does so now.
“The government will not ship the 2020 hajj pilgrimage,” Razi said.
Indonesia, the enviornment’s most populous Muslim nation, in most cases sends the largest contingent to the pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest cities, Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. It used to be anticipated to ship 221,000 pilgrims this year.
Razi said pilgrimages held in the end of past disease outbreaks resulted in tragedies whereby tens of thousands of of us grew to become victims.
“In 1814 as an example, when the Thaun outbreak took place, also in 1837 and 1858 there used to be a virus outbreak, cholera outbreak in 1892 and in the end of the meningitis outbreak in 1987,” he said.
As of Tuesday, the govt. has confirmed 27,549 COVID-19 cases, at the side of 1,663 deaths.
