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cord-269679-dfma5kqc	Badshah, Syed Lal	Spread of Novel Coronavirus by Returning Pilgrims from Iran to Pakistan	2020-04-09		.txt	text/plain	266	23	62	key: cord-269679-dfma5kqc authors: Badshah, Syed Lal; Ullah, Asad; Badshah, Syed Hilal; Ahmad, Irshad cord_uid: dfma5kqc Iran was initially reluctant to close its borders with its neighbors as religious tourism is a big part of its revenue generation and the international community has already imposed economic sanctions over it due to its nuclear program. 3 Every year approximately 0.7 million Shia sect Muslims from Pakistan visit for a pilgrimage to various shrines in the cities of Iran that include Qom, Tehran, Tabriz, and Mashhad. It has been estimated that there are over eight thousand sacred sites in Iran alone and every year around eight million foreigners visit these shrines ( Figure 1 ). The pilgrimage mostly includes visits to cities like Karbala, Najaf, Kufa, Samara, and Baghdad in Iraq and several places in Damascus in Syria. Estimation of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Burden and Potential for International Dissemination of Infection From Iran COVID-19 battle during the toughest sanctions against Iran The authors declared no conflict of interest.	./cache/cord-269679-dfma5kqc.txt	./txt/cord-269679-dfma5kqc.txt