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 Saudi Arabia will allow pilgrims living inside the country to undertake the Umrah pilgrimage, beginning on October 4, after a seven-month pause thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, state press agency Saudi news agency has reported. In March, the country had declared a freeze on Umrah, which is an Islamic pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina undertaken any time of the year, attracting 19 million people last year. Saudi Arabia will now allow 6,000 citizens and residents inside the dominion to perform Umrah daily, representing 30 percent of a revised capacity of 20,000 that takes under consideration precautionary health measures, SPA said. That will expand to 75 percent of capacity on October 18. Beginning on All Saints' Day , the dominion will allow visitors from specific countries deemed safe to perform Umrah at one hundred pc of the revised capacity, until the top of the pandemic, SPA added. The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah is developing a mobile application which will b...