Jakarta (Indonesia Window) – The 1441 Hijri/2020 hajj has safely implemented in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic under a number of health protocols.
Although the pilgrims have returned to their homes, there is still one more health procedure that they should carry out, namely, home quarantine for 14 days.
During that period they have to keep wearing electronic bracelets so that authorities could monitor their self-isolation for two weeks.
The bracelet is designed to monitor pilgrims’ adherence to quarantine, as well as monitoring and recording their health status through the Tatamman app.
The country continues to experience a decline in COVID-19 cases.
Recorded infections remain below the 2,000 mark for the 10th day in a row.
The kingdom reported 1,258 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday (Aug 3), raising the number of those infected to 280,093 so far.
There are currently 35,091 active cases and six patients were admitted to critical care units, raising the number to 2,017.
There were 32 new fatalities, raising the death toll to 2,949.
There were 1,972 new recoveries recorded, raising the total number of recoveries to 242,053.
More than 41,361 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests have been conducted in the past 24 hours.
The total number of PCR tests conducted to date exceeds 3.47 million.
Reporting by Indonesia Window