Saudi Arabia announced on Monday that it will allow Muslims to perform religious rites Pilgrimage This year, without any restriction on the number of pilgrims and their age, after three years of significant reduction in the number of pilgrims due to the outbreak of the “Covid-19” pandemic.
Saudi Hajj and Umrah Minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah told a conference that this year’s Hajj season will not require an upper age limit..
Sources told Al-Arabiya that the value of medical insurance for pilgrims has been reduced by more than 60%, and sources said this year’s Hajj will be the same number as before the Corona pandemic..
Earlier, Ihab Abdel-Al, a former member of the Supreme Committee for Hajj and Umrah, said that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has started to look at the Umrah issue in a positive way and allows large numbers to enter its lands. .
A former member of the Supreme Committee for Hajj and Umrah added that the new type of visa is tourism or visiting a friend in Saudi Arabia, and it is also possible to enter the Kingdom directly with an American visa, and this it could threaten the tour companies who were organizing the entire trip from visa to arrival in Saudi Arabia.
A former member of the Supreme Committee for Hajj and Umrah explained that the new visa system for Saudi Arabia threatens more than 1,800 tourism companies declaring bankruptcy and laying off their employees, and therefore an agreement must be reached between Egypt and Saudi Arabia at the highest level to organize this process so that 3 harms do not occur, namely the loss of hundreds of billions of state taxes and the collapse of the economy for the tourism companies and the exposure of some long-term residents to the fraud.
