The Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah announced that this year’s Hajj rituals in Makkah Al-Mukarramah next month will be limited to 60,000 residents of the Kingdom vaccinated against the Coronavirus, in a decision that came against the background of the continuing outbreak of the pandemic.
According to a statement by the ministry, published by the official news agency, this decision came in light of what the world is witnessing of the continuing developments of the new Coronavirus, and the emergence of new mutations in it.
The Ministry enumerated the conditions that must apply to those wishing to perform the Hajj rituals, which are: being free from chronic diseases and being within the age groups from (18 to 65 years) for those vaccinated, according to the controls and mechanisms followed in the Kingdom for immunization categories (vaccinated, or immunized). Completed 1 dose and spent 14 days, or immunized, recovering).
It also ensured that this arrangement came out of her constant concern for the health, safety, and security of pilgrims and the safety of their countries as well.
Last year, about 10,000 residents participated in the rituals, compared to about 2.5 million Muslims in 2019, in an unprecedented season in the shape of the numbering and categorizing, over which the specter of the Coronavirus continued to spread around the world, claiming millions of deaths.
It is the second year in a row that hundreds of thousands of Muslims around the world are prevented from performing annual Hajj rituals due to the pandemic.
And the Saudi authorities had announced in April that only people who had received the anti-virus vaccine are allowed to perform Umrah and pray in the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
And last October, Saudi Arabia re-allowed the performance of Umrah and opened the Grand Mosque to worshipers for the first time after seven months of closure, with the Kingdom’s authorities easing restrictions imposed to curb the Covid-19 pandemic.
The authorities currently allow only about 20,000 people to perform it daily, and for 60,000 people to perform prayers on the campus.
So far, the Kingdom has provided more than 15 million doses of its approved vaccines to its population of 33 million people, namely Pfizer / Piontech, AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson.
As for the Noble Prophet’s Mosque and the visit to the tomb of our master, the pride of beings, our master Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, only the General Agency for the Affairs of the Prophet’s Mosque announced that it would only allow those who received the vaccine to enter the Noble Mosque and its courtyards.
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