{"id":116089,"date":"2021-03-04T11:50:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T03:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116089"},"modified":"2021-03-04T11:50:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T03:50:51","slug":"mandatory-covid-19-injection-for-hajj-pilgrims-to-ensure-their-health-msian-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116089","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory COVID-19 Injection For Hajj Pilgrims To Ensure Their Health &#8211; Msian Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The announcement by the Saudi government on the mandatory COVID-19 injection for this year\u2019s hajj pilgrims is to ensure their health is in good condition, said Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department (Religious Affairs) Dr Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Zulkifli said the announcement was also an expression of the commitment of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, Raja Salman Abdulaziz and Saudi\u2019s Ministry of Health in ensuring the smooth running of the pilgrimage this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMalaysia welcomes (the announcement). The Cabinet meeting this morning also took note of the need for Malaysian pilgrims to take the COVID-19 vaccine before performing the hajj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As for the vaccination of Malaysian pilgrims, I am still waiting for feedback from Saudi\u2019s Minister of Hajj and Umrah, Dr Mohammed Saleh Tahir Benten on the total quota of Malaysian pilgrims allowed to perform the hajj this year or the standard operating procedures for performing hajj,&#8221; he said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Zulkifli called on all Muslims to pray so that the COVID-19 pandemic would come to an end and allow the hajj to be conducted smoothly this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The announcement by the Saudi government on the mandatory COVID-19 injection for this year\u2019s hajj pilgrims is to ensure their health is in good condition, said Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department (Religious Affairs) Dr Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri. Dr Zulkifli said the announcement was also an expression of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":95364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}