MECCA: Saudi Arabia will start welcoming vaccinated worshippers from overseas to come to perform haj, the state news agency (SPA) reported early on Sunday.
According to Reuters, an official in the Haj and Umrah Ministry said domestic and overseas pilgrims will have 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 will have to be institutionally quarantined upon arrival, the report added.
Umrah Haj pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina was halted for almost one year and a half due to Covid pandemic.
This year, in July, it was reopened but for no more than 60,000 domestic worshippers only.
