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. 2020 Sep 5:taaa153. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa153

Call to avert acceleration of COVID-19 from India’s Sabarimala pilgrimage of 25 million devotees

K Rajasekharan Nayar 1, Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya 2, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan 3, Arathi P Rao 4, Gnanaseelan Kanakamma Libu 5, Kanniyan Binub 6, Althaf Ali 7, Mansoor C Abdulla 8, Mahesh Gupthan 9, Shahul H Ebrahim 10,
PMCID: PMC7499706  PMID: 32889547

Highlights

India has the third-highest COVID-19 burden. Hosting the Sabarimala pilgrimage of an estimated 25 million can compromise the near-mitigated but fragile COVID-19 status of the host State of Kerala, accelerate the ongoing outbreaks in other states of India, and potentially in multiple countries with emigrants from Kerala.


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