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cord-317080-kn56oov6	Quadri, Sayed. A.	COVID-19 and Religious Congregations: Implications for Spread of Novel Pathogens	2020-05-07		.txt	text/plain	289	31	59	title: COVID-19 and Religious Congregations: Implications for Spread of Novel Pathogens Gathering of large number of people in close approximation could be a fertile ground for the spread of novel pathogens. COVID 19 is spread through droplet and basic reproduction rate, a 23 measure of transmissibility of the virus, ranges from 2.24 to 3.58 (Zhao et al., 2020) . Public 24 gatherings will evidently increase transmission and therefore social distancing was touted as the 25 foremost preventive strategy.  Suspension of communal gatherings must be promptly done as a preventive strategy 196 whenever novel pathogens emerge, in order to contain its spread.  An international regime of containment measures with regards to suspension of religious 198 congregations during infectious disease outbreaks must be devised. Preliminary estimation of the basic reproduction number of novel 185 coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China, from 2019 to 2020: A data-driven analysis in the 186 early phase of the outbreak	./cache/cord-317080-kn56oov6.txt	./txt/cord-317080-kn56oov6.txt