{"id":4722,"date":"2021-04-06T11:09:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T07:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/?p=4722"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:09:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T07:09:40","slug":"saudi-arabia-to-allow-vaccinated-people-to-perform-pilgrimage-during-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/saudi-arabia-to-allow-vaccinated-people-to-perform-pilgrimage-during-ramadan\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia to allow vaccinated people to perform pilgrimage during Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saudi authorities said that only people immunized against COVID-19 will be allowed to perform the year-round Umrah pilgrimage, starting from the holy month of Ramadan,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/qia.az\" class=\"rank-math-link\">&#8220;Q\u0130A.az&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0informs referring to Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah said in a statement that only \u201cimmunized 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\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi authorities said that only people immunized against COVID-19 will be allowed to perform the year-round Umrah pilgrimage, starting from the holy month of Ramadan,\u00a0&#8220;Q\u0130A.az&#8221;\u00a0informs referring to Al Jazeera. The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah said in a statement that only \u201cimmunized people\u201d will be granted permits to perform Umrah as well as prayers in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/saudi-arabia-to-allow-vaccinated-people-to-perform-pilgrimage-during-ramadan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saudi Arabia to allow vaccinated people to perform pilgrimage during Ramadan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}