{"id":404791,"date":"2021-04-06T09:04:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T09:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=404791"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:32:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T11:32:17","slug":"saudi-arabia-to-allow-only-immunised-pilgrims-to-mecca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/saudi-arabia-to-allow-only-immunised-pilgrims-to-mecca\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia to allow only \u2018immunised\u2019 pilgrims to Mecca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi authorities said Monday that only people immunised against COVID-19 will be allowed to perform the year-round Umrah pilgrimage, starting from the holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spa.gov.sa\/2211515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a statement<\/a>\u00a0that only \u201cimmunised people\u201d will be granted permits to perform Umrah as well as prayers in the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca.<\/p>\n<p>These include individuals who have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, those having received one dose of the vaccine at least 14 days before performing the pilgrimage, or a person who has recovered from the virus, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry also said it would increase the operational capacity of the holy mosque in adherence with COVID-19 measures and restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>It was also not clear whether the policy, which comes amid an uptick in coronavirus infections in Saudi Arabia, would be extended to the annual Hajj pilgrimage later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has reported more than 393,000 coronavirus infections and over 6,700 deaths from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The kingdom\u2019s health ministry said it has administered more than five million coronavirus vaccines, in a country with a population of over 34 million.<\/p>\n<p>@Aljazera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi authorities said Monday that only people immunised against COVID-19 will be allowed to perform the year-round Umrah pilgrimage, starting from the holy month of Ramadan. The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah\u00a0said in a statement\u00a0that only \u201cimmunised people\u201d will be granted permits to perform Umrah as well as prayers in the Grand Mosque in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-404791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404793,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404791\/revisions\/404793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}