Saudi Arabia will host pre-pandemic numbers of Hajj pilgrims in 2023

The number of people participating in this year’s Hajj will return to pre-pandemic levels, Saudi Arabia’s ministry of Hajj has announced in a tweet

About 2.5 million pilgrims participated in the religious journey in 2019. To stop the spread of COVID-19 , numbers were significantly reduced for the following two years.

Prior to reopening its doors to one million international pilgrims in 2022, the kingdom only permitted small numbers of its citizens to perform Hajj in 2020 and 2021.

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In 2022, nearly 900,000 pilgrims, including some 780,000 from abroad, were welcomed in the Kingdom.