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Last week, Saudi Arabia lifted the suspension of foreign flights.
Saudi Arabia will gradually resume the Umra Pilgrimage for Muslims year-round from Four October, the Interior Ministry announced Tuesday, seven months after it was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The kingdom suspended the Umrah in March and then reduced the annual hajj to millions of pilgrims around the world, fearing that the coronavirus would reach Islam’s holiest sites.
Initially, “6,000 citizens of the kingdom will be able to practice Umra according to the day from October 4,” the ministry said in a published through the official Saudi news agency.
Visitors to the outside of the kingdom will be allowed from 1 November, when the capacity of the Umra will exceed 20,000 pilgrims according to the day, the ministry added.
The umra, which refers to the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca that can take place at any time of the year, attracts millions of Muslims from all over the world every year.
The ministry said Omra would be allowed to resume full “natural capacity” once the risk of pandemics is eliminated.
The resolve to resume the Umrah in reaction to the “aspirations of Muslims at home and abroad” to carry out the ritual and make a stopover in the sacred places, added the ministry.
The resolution comes after the kingdom made the smallest hajj in fashion history in late July, with only 10,000 Muslims allowed to participate in total, far from the 2. 5 million who participated last year.
The health government said no cases of coronavirus were reported in the sacred sites of the hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam and a duty to healthy Muslims at least once in their lives.
Hajj pilgrims toured the sacred Kaaba, a cubic design of the Grand Mosque of Mecca to which Muslims around the world pray along socially remote roads.
Pilgrims were also subjected to normal temperature checks and asked to quarantine after the ritual.
‘Double effort’
King Salman, the leader of the 84-year-old kingdom, said performing the hajj in the shadow of the pandemic required “a double effort” on the part of the Saudi authorities.
Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages are a massive logistical challenge, with colossal crowds crowding in small sacred places, making them vulnerable to contagion.
The kingdom has sought to involve an increase in infections, which have now reached more than 330,000 cases, those in the Gulf, and more than 4,500 deaths.
But Saudi Arabia also reported a maximum recovery rate, which exceeded 312,000 on Tuesday.
Last week, Saudi Arabia partially lifted its suspension of foreign flights, six months after restrictions were imposed due to the pandemic.
Saudi Arabia’s guard in Mecca and Medina, Islam’s two holiest sites, is the kingdom’s ultimate source of political legitimacy.
But a series of fatal mistakes over the years, adding a stampede in 2015 that killed 2,300 worshippers, has generated complaints about the Sunly kingdom’s handling of the hajj.
Sacred sites are also a key source of income for Saudi Arabia.
The pilgrimage usually costs thousands of dollars to the faithful, who save for years and go through long waiting lists to be able to attend.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s 2030 vision reform plan, the de facto leader, aims to separate the kingdom’s economy, the world’s largest crude oil exporter, from dependence on oil from other income resources, adding tourism.
The government hopes to welcome 30 million pilgrims to the kingdom until 2030.
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