{"id":72176,"date":"2021-01-07T13:57:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T13:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=72176"},"modified":"2021-01-09T14:28:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T14:28:21","slug":"umrah-pilgrims-advised-to-take-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/72176-umrah-pilgrims-advised-to-take-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Umrah pilgrims advised to take covid-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-07_17-50-14-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-07_17-50-14-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-07_17-50-14-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-07_17-50-14-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-07_17-50-14-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2021-01-07_17-50-14.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who wish to perform the Umrah pilgrimage are advised to take the Covid-19 vaccine shot, Saudi Arabia\u2019s Minister of Hajj and Umrah Muhammad Saleh Benten has said.<br>Benten said that all the precautionary measures and preventive protocols are being followed to stem the spread of the Covid-19 infection and that is in coordination with the Ministry of Health. Directives such as social distancing, using sanitizer, wearing masks, and following the age limit for the performance of the Umrah rituals will be applied.<br>The Umrah pilgrimage is \u201csafe\u201d, he added, local media reported.<br>The remarks came in the wake of the minister receiving the coronavirus vaccine dose in Jeddah. \u201cAnyone who registers to receive coronavirus vaccine through the Sehhaty application and wants to perform Umrah, must take the vaccine,\u201d he said.<br>Saudi Arabia\u2019s health authority approved the registration of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the kingdom last month, following which the country\u2019s health minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah received a shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who wish to perform the Umrah pilgrimage are advised to take the Covid-19 vaccine shot, Saudi Arabia\u2019s Minister of Hajj and Umrah Muhammad Saleh Benten has said.Benten said that all the precautionary measures and preventive protocols are being followed to stem the spread of the Covid-19 infection and that is in coordination with the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,31,11],"tags":[1680,245,1627,1656],"class_list":["post-72176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atabat","category-islam","category-news","category-saudi","tag-covid-19","tag-pilgrims","tag-umrah","tag-vaccine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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