28 Feb 2020
Lion Air was set to airlift about 13,000 umrah pilgrims in Medina Airport and King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah to return to Indonesia.
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28 Feb 2020
The committee concerned with following up on the status of the novel coronavirus held its ninth meeting here on Friday headed by Minister of Health Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah.
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28 Feb 2020
Citizens of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have been temporarily banned from entering Saudi Arabia’s holy cities Makkah and Madinah, the Kingdom’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday.
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28 Feb 2020
Officials have projected that the hotel sector in the two holy cities, Makkah and Madinah, would suffer losses of about 40 percent compared to last year if the suspension of entry to the Kingdom for Umrah purposes and visiting the Prophet’s Mosque continues.
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28 Feb 2020
Religious Affairs Minister Fachrul Razi said 2,393 people must cancel their umrah pilgrimage following Saudi's decision to suspend umrah entry.
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