360 Pilgrims Of The First Group Of Solo Debarkation Have Arrived In Indonesia, Welcomed By The Deputy Governor Of Central Java

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JAKARTA - A total of 360 pilgrims from Pati Regency who joined the first batch of Solo Debarkation arrived in the country via Adi Soemarmo Airport in Boyolali, Central Java, Friday night, July 16.

The first hajj batch for the Solo Debarkation departed from Saudi Arabia's King Abdul Aziz Airport at around 05.10 WIB and landed at Adi Sumarmo Boyolali Airport, Central Java, at 22.44 WIB.

The first hundred hajj batches got off the Garuda Indonesia airplane with flight number 6201 and were immediately picked up by nine buses heading to the Donohu and Boyolali Hajj Dormitory.

The first batch of Hajj Debarkation Solo from Pati, Central Java, upon arrival at the Haji Donohudan Boyolali Dormitory, was immediately received at the Muzdalifah Building, while maintaining health protocols.

In fact, the first batch of pilgrims during the process of entering the Muzdalifah Building had to pass a digital body temperature detector to detect whether there was a Hajj body temperature above the set.

According to the Solo Debarkation PPIH Public Relations Coordinator, Sarip Sahrul Samsudin, the pilgrims during the entry process at the Muzdalifah Building passed a digital body temperature detector. If a pilgrim is found whose body temperature is above 37.5 degrees Celsius, further health checks will be carried out by the medical team.

PPIH Debarkasi Solo also took 36 samples from 360 hajj pilgrims for an antigen swab test to anticipate the presence of COVID-19 cases. Initially, there were 358 pilgrims in the first batch, but there were two hajjis who had mutated from the second batch, bringing the total to 360 people.

The first hajj batch for the Solo Debarkation was welcomed by the Deputy Governor of Central Java, Taj Yasin, representing the Governor, Ganjar Pranowo, who was unable to attend. After being given directions, they are then handed over to the regional committee to return to their respective regions.

In addition, the first batch of hajj pilgrims from Pati also welcomed the Regional Head of the Ministry of Religion of the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY), Masmin Afif, Pati Regent Haryanto, and a number of officials in the Central Java Ministry of Religion.

"The first hajj group has been picked up by 10 buses from the regional committee to be sent back to their respective regions," he said.

Sarip said the number of pilgrims from Solo Debarkation who were sick and being treated in Saudi Arabian hospitals was 16 people and all of them came from Central Java. Meanwhile, as many as eight people have died due to illness in the Holy Land as of this Friday.

Previously, PPIH Debarkation Solo had dispatched pilgrims from Central Java and DI Yogyakarta to the Holy Land this year, with a total of 15,447 people divided into 43 groups.