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Monday, April 06, 2020

Covid-19 clusters - religious gathering common denominator


Malaysiakini:

Church and wedding gatherings among Covid-19 clusters in Malaysia


CORONAVIRUS | A church gathering in Sarawak and a wedding in Bangi are among several Covid-19 clusters in the country.

This is on top of the tabligh gathering in Sri Petaling, which took place on Feb 27 until March 1, and attended by some 16,000 people, which has become the epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak in the country.

The three-day church gathering dubbed the "Good News Fellowship Conference" in Kuching, Sarawak, which took place from Feb 26 to Feb 28, has led to 83 confirmed infections with two deaths and five in critical condition.

Meanwhile, the wedding in Bangi which took place on March 6 to 7 had led to 88 infections with one currently in the intensive care unit.

Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah had previously said the spread of Covid-19 at the wedding was believed to have started from people who had attended the Sri Petaling gathering a week earlier.

As the wedding was between a doctor and a nurse, many Health Ministry staff had attended the event and those who caught the virus there subsequently sparked a smaller cluster at the Teluk Intan hospital where 44 people were infected.


Noor Hisham said the incidences highlighted the impact of mass gatherings.

"Mass gatherings have a drastic impact on the rise of Covid-19 cases in Malaysia," he told a press conference in Putrajaya today.

He said both the church and wedding events had spread to the fifth generation of infections.

A fifth-generation spread means that the virus has jumped from a person to a different person for five consecutive times.

The church cluster had led to Sarawak Assistant Transport Minister Jerip Susil (below) to become infected as his maid had attended the event.





However, Noor Hisham said he believes that both clusters have been contained.

He said the Sri Petaling gathering remains the largest cluster, involving 42.8 percent of the total Covid-19 infections, followed by the church and wedding gatherings.

To date, according to Noor Hisham, the Health Ministry has taken a total of 18,310 samples from people connected to the Sri Petaling gathering cluster.

Of the figure, 1,624 have been tested positive, while 11,708 others were negative.

He said another cluster that was detected in Sarawak, linked to Case 1,580 who returned from Italy last month, remains at 37 positive cases so far.

The cluster had seen five deaths from a family, after a colleague of one of them failed to self-quarantine after returning to Malaysia and started the chain of infections.


1 comment:

  1. All clerics: imams, priests, monks and alamaks are helpless in the face of this new threat. We now see the useless-ness and impotence of man-made religions. All Lies, Manipulation of the Masses and Useless Mumbo Jumbo.

    The virus bows only to the New Religion....Saintology. The prophets of this new religion are the folks at MOH. Listen to them (except the Menteri Air Suam).

    No mass gatherings for Six Months, even after the end of MCO2, MCO3, MCO4 etc...I think this is not long enough. It should be enforced until 2021.

    No Easter this weekend, no Ramadan Bazaars, No Hari Raya Open House, no Gawai, No Kaamatan, no Haj (Saudis will Bow too), no Hari Kemerdekaan or Hari Malaysia procession, no Deepavali and no Christmas.

    No church, temple, mosque gatherings. Everything will be atas talian, even weddings and funerals.

    No Olympics, no football, baseball, basketball. Not even badminton with the neighbour over the fence.

    Note I said religion, not Allah. He is showing displeasure at all these fake religions and fake prophets. That's why Allah sent this pestilence upon a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah if you like, like what was written in the Torah, Quran and the Bible.

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