Saudi Arabia will allow 60,000 of its residents vaccinated against the coronavirus to perform the hajj, a great Muslim pilgrimage that takes place each year in Mecca, the Hajj ministry announced, according to the official SPA agency.
During the last hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, only tens of thousands of faithful residing in Saudi Arabia were able to perform this rite, against 2.5 million participants from around the world in 2019, due to the pandemic of Covid-19.
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