{"id":286499,"date":"2020-12-24T10:52:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T13:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=286499"},"modified":"2020-12-29T18:28:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T21:28:52","slug":"saudi-has-received-5-mn-pilgrims-since-resuming-umrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-has-received-5-mn-pilgrims-since-resuming-umrah\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi has received 5 mn pilgrims since resuming Umrah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Saudi Arabia has received five million pilgrims and worshippers at the Grand Mosque in Mecca since the resumption of Umrah in October, the official <em>Saudi Press Agency <\/em>(SPA) reported. The Umrah is an pilgrimage to Mecca that can be undertaken at any time of the year, in contrast to the \u1e24ajj.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Hajj and Umrah, Mohammed Saleh Benten, reported that no case of COVID-19 has been recorded among Umrah worshippers so far. Saudi Arabia had suspended Umrah in March to prevent the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The country announced in September that Umrah would resume in a phased manner. The pilgrimage restarted on October 4, with citizens and expatriates allowed to perform Umrah at 30% of the capacity \u2013 equating to 6,000 worshippers per day.<\/p>\n<p>In the second phase, which started on October 18, the number of pilgrims allowed to perform Umrah increased to 15,000 per day.<\/p>\n<p>The third stage, which began on November 1<sup>st<\/sup>, permitted pilgrims from outside the country to also perform Umrah and visit the Holy Mosques at 100% capacity \u2013 20,000 pilgrims per day and 60,000 worshippers a day.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia halted all international flights and closed its borders for a week starting Monday (21) due to the new virus strain. The closure could extend for another week, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-286495\">AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country has resumed the pilgrimage in a phased manner since October and reported that no case of COVID-19 has been recorded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":286495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[11910,14156,10212,18621,4508,18620,18622,18619,3530,9595,17331],"class_list":{"0":"post-286499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arabia-saudita-en","9":"tag-covid-19-en","10":"tag-hajj-en","11":"tag-holy-mosque","12":"tag-mecca","13":"tag-mesquista-sagrada","14":"tag-minister-of-hajj","15":"tag-ministerio-do-hajj","16":"tag-pilgrimage","17":"tag-saudi-arabia-en","18":"tag-umrah-en"},"wps_subtitle":"The country has resumed the pilgrimage in a phased manner since October and reported that no case of COVID-19 has been recorded.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}