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Saudi to allow around 1,000 pilgrims to perform Hajj

Saudi to allow around 1,000 pilgrims to perform Hajj

Saudi Arabia will allow around 1,000 pilgrims to perform Hajj this year, a minister said Tuesday, June 23.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was announced that this year’s
Hajj would be scaled back. Only one thousand pilgrims residing in the
kingdom will be allowed to partake in the ceremony this year.

“The number of pilgrims will be around 1,000, maybe less, maybe a little more,” Hajj Minister Mohammad Benten told reporters.

“The number won’t be in tens or hundreds of thousands” this year, he added.

Benten did not specify how the pilgrims will be selected.

The pilgrimage, scheduled for the end of July, will be limited to
those below 65 years of age and with no chronic illnesses, Health
Minister Tawfiq al-Rabiah said.

The pilgrims will be tested for coronavirus before arriving in the
holy city of Mecca and will be required to quarantine at home after the
ritual, al-Rabiah added.

Saudi Arabia announced on Monday it would hold a “very limited” hajj
this year. It said the ritual will be open to people of various
nationalities already in the kingdom.

This is the first time in Saudi Arabia’s modern history that Muslims
outside the kingdom have been barred from performing the hajj.

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