Sarawak Covid-19: Effects of Pre-Festival Mobility and Festival Gatherings

Gathering to celebrate festivals is a common socio-cultural practice amongst Sarawak’s diverse groups. For untold years, individuals, households, villages and at times the entire communities get together observe their various religious, cultural community festivals. However, during COVID-19 pandemic period, of gathering those became challenging practice. This because density population intensity social contacts are deemed increase SARS-CoV-2 high transmissibility. In this paper, we analyzed trend active cases in Sarawak first half year 2021 calibrated parameter signifying proportion exposed taking effective precautionary measures, κ our model. Our findings suggest that after every festival celebration value decreased, leading increased number cases. addition, pre-festival mobility change involving visits retail grocery stores higher than any other time. Therefore, gatherings catalysts accelerated increment Sarawak. light this, proposed form related ought be avoided order curb forms outbreak