{"id":85545,"date":"2020-07-29T20:11:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T12:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85545"},"modified":"2020-07-29T20:14:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T12:14:46","slug":"haj-begins-amid-strict-health-precautions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85545","title":{"rendered":"Haj begins amid strict health precautions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Haj-Arab-Saudi-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85546\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Haj-Arab-Saudi-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Haj-Arab-Saudi-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Haj-Arab-Saudi-1-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Haj-Arab-Saudi-1-555x370.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo courtesy of  Saudi Ministry of Media.<br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MAKKAH, July 29 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pilgrims started off the first day of the Haj period performing the \u1e6cawaf al-Qudum (Tawaf of Arrival) at the  <br>city\u2019s Grand Mosque (Al Masjid al-Haram) today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All rituals will be performed under strict health precautionary measures amid the ongoing virus pandemic situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of pilgrims for this year\u2019s\u00a0Haj\u00a0has been dramatically reduced from last year&#8217;s 2.6 million to ensure the social distancing measures are adhered to due to COVID-19, a report by the Saudi Ministry of Media said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The pilgrimage this year has been also limited to citizens and residents of Saudi Arabia, who meet preset conditions and have been subjected to quarantine procedures. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAKKAH, July 29 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pilgrims started off the first day of the Haj period performing the \u1e6cawaf al-Qudum (Tawaf of Arrival) at the city\u2019s Grand Mosque (Al Masjid al-Haram) today. All rituals will be performed under strict health precautionary measures amid the ongoing virus pandemic situation. The number of pilgrims for this year\u2019s\u00a0Haj\u00a0has been dramatically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":85546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318,217,291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85545"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}