NSTnation: Some 80 Malaysians are believed to have arrived in Gowa, Makassar in Indonesia to join thousands of Muslim pilgrims at an international tabligh gathering there. coronavirus covid19
A Facebook post linked to an organising committee member of the event stated that there were 411 foreign nationals from nine countries, including 83 from Malaysia, at the event.Gowa's administrative head Adnan Purichta Ichsan Yasin Limpo told CNN Indonesia that the gathering was an annual event but a request had been made for the organisers to postpone this year's World Ijtima Asia Zone 2020 in light of the Covid-19 outbreak.
He had also said that attempts to engage the organisers to seek a postponement of the event had been made since Friday but a meeting was only held earlier yesterday as the tabligh group waited for the arrival of their syura council members.The organisers had also notified him that a decision would only be made after Subuh prayers at dawn today.
Indonesia recorded 55 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, bringing the total to 227 cases including 19 deaths. One account on Facebook carried the photograph of a prominent Indian Tablighi cleric Sheikh Maulana Ibrahim Dewla leaving the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Tuesday for the Indonesia event.
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