Saudi Arabia would limit this year’s hajj pilgrimage to 60,000 residents and nationals living in kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
Saudi ministries for health and Hajj on Saturday disclosed that Saudi Arabia has announced this restriction due to ongoing corona virus pandemic.
It stressed that those desire to perform Hajj (fifth pillar of Islam) must be free of any chronic diseases, should be vaccinated and fall within the age limits from 18 to 65 years, Arab news reported.
The decision is “based on the Kingdom’s constant keenness to enable the maximum numbers of pilgrims at the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque to perform the Islamic rituals of Hajj and Umrah,” the ministry said. “The Kingdom puts human health and safety first.” The hajj begins mid-July.
Few days earlier Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony asked the intending pilgrims not to book their slot for the upcoming hajj pilgrimage before announcement of Hajj Policy by the ministry. A spokesman of the ministry said in a statement that some unscrupulous elements could inflict pecuniary losses to the intending pilgrims by wrongly promising them the share from the hajj quota, which ironically they do not have right now as the Saudi government has not yet announced the quota for any country for the upcoming hajj pilgrimage.
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