Saudi Arabia increased the number of pilgrims to one million this year.
In the wake of the Corona epidemic, Saudi Arabia increased the number of Hajj pilgrims to one million this year, subject to conditions including vaccination.
Saudi Arabia has announced that it will receive one million pilgrims from inside and outside the country this year.
In the wake of the Corona epidemic, which has led Saudi Arabia to hold the Hajj season severely limited to a number of domestic pilgrims over the past two years, Riyadh announced Saturday that it will host one million pilgrims from inside and outside Saudi Arabia this year.
Saudi Arabia has also set conditions for pilgrims this year. According to the Saudi news agency (WAS), this year’s Hajj is for people under 65. Also, people who intend to perform Hajj must be vaccinated and present a document approved by the Ministry of Health. In addition, the Saudi Ministry of Hajj stipulates that individuals must submit a negative coronation test certificate of no more than 72 hours before entering Saudi Arabia.
While before the outbreak of the corona epidemic, about two and a half million people participated in Hajj rites, last year (2021) due to this disease, Hajj, with only about 60,000 out of 558,000 applicants (purely from within Saudi Arabia) and was held for people between 18 and 65 years old. In 2020, the Hajj season was held with only about ten thousand people and the Umrah was suspended for six months.
It is said that according to previously published statistics, the annual income of Saudi Arabia from performing Hajj and Umrah was about twelve billion dollars.
