Saudi Arabia Opens Umrah Pilgrimage to Vaccinated Worshipers From Abroad

Saudi Arabia Opens Umrah Pilgrimage to Vaccinated Worshipers From Abroad
Saudi Arabia Opens Umrah Pilgrimage to Vaccinated Worshipers From Abroad

Saudi Arabia will gradually begin receiving Umrah pilgrimage requests from abroad for vaccinated pilgrims starting Aug. 9 after about a year and a half of not receiving overseas worshippers due to the COVID-19 pandemic; state news agency (SPA) reported early on Sunday.

With a capacity that would rise to 2 million pilgrims from 60;000 pilgrims per month; Makkah and Medina will start welcoming visitors from abroad to their mosques while maintaining COVID-19 precautionary measures.

An official in the Hajj and Umrah Ministry said domestic and overseas pilgrims will have also to include authorized COVID-19 vaccination certificates along with their Umrah request.

Vaccinated pilgrims from countries that Saudi Arabia includes on its entry-ban list also will have to be institutionally in quarantine upon arrival; the report added.

Umrah; a pilgrimage to Islam's two holiest sites that is undertaken at any time of the year; opened in October for domestic worshippers after it was totally upon the outbreak of the pandemic.

Islam's holiest sites' home for the second year in a row had hosted a limited-numbered; domestic Haj pilgrimage in July.

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