The number of pilgrims is back to what it was before the pandemic and 99 million pilgrims during the past 45 years

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">The ritual of Arabia - Sinan Khalaf - success after success is recorded year after year for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with its distinguished management of the largest Islamic gathering in the world, a gathering of pilgrims to the Sacred House of God in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, especially on the day of Arafa, in which millions of pilgrims gather on Mount Arafa, amid a distinguished organization No rush or incidents.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>99 million pilgrims during the past 45 years</strong></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> 99 million during the past 54 years, announced by the General Authority for Statistics in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, amid expectations of the arrival of more than two million pilgrims this season, which begins next Monday.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>The numbers of pilgrims this year are back to what they were before the outbreak of Corona</strong></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Thus, the numbers of “large” pilgrims reach the same level as before the outbreak of the Corona virus, which limited the number of pilgrims for three years. And Saudi Arabia allowed Muslims to perform Hajj this year without any restrictions on the number of pilgrims and their ages, after three years that witnessed a reduction in the number of pilgrims and those over the age of sixty-five were not allowed to perform Hajj due to the pandemic.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> It is expected that the number of pilgrims this year will exceed two million, while last year 926,000 pilgrims participated in the rituals, including 781,000 who came from abroad, according to official data.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>This is what happened during the Hajj season in the year 2019 AD</strong></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In 2019, about 2.5 million Muslims from all over the world participated in the annual Hajj rituals, but the outbreak of the Corona virus forced the Saudi authorities to significantly reduce the number of pilgrims, so 60,000 citizens and residents of the Kingdom participated and were fully vaccinated in 2021, in exchange for a few thousand in 2020.</p>