Worshippers perform the circumambulation around the Ka’ba, Islam’s holiest shrine at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on 22 July 2021, marking the end of this year’s Haj. As of Monday, 9 August 2021, the kingdom started taking travel requests from vaccinated foreign visitors to the holy city of Mecca as part of the Umra pilgrimage. Photo: AFP

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