Faizel Patel – 09/08/2021
Nearly 18 months after the Saudi Arabia closed its borders to COVID-19, the kingdom has from Monday begun “gradually receiving umrah requests from various countries.”
Before Sunday’s announcement, only immunised pilgrims residing in Saudi Arabia were eligible for umrah permits.
The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) quoting deputy hajj minister Abdulfattah bin Sulaiman Mashat reports foreign pilgrims must be immunised with a Saudi-recognised vaccine – Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson – and agree to undergo quarantine if necessary.
According to the SPA report, Saudi Arabia will allow 60,000 pilgrims to perform umrah each month, and gradually increase that to reach two million worshippers per month.
Saudi Arabia has registered nearly 532,000 coronavirus cases and more than 8,300 deaths.
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