Abu Dhabi: A little over a year after the COVID-19 pandemic and its adverse effects on the world’s economies, positive signs have appeared on the horizon for the recovery of the economies of Haj and Umrah in Mecca and Medina, with expectations of a higher number of people coming to perform Umrah than was recorded in the last season, experts said.
Ramadan, according to experts, will be a turning point with which expectations and the influx of ritual performers will rise to reach 40 per cent in the recovery phase.
April 3 coincides with the Saudi authorities’ imposition of curfew in Mecca and Medina last year, as a precautionary measure to stem outbreak of COVID-19.