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Cairo: Around 3 million worshippers have got access to the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca over the first 20 days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that began on April 13, a Saudi official has said. The figure includes nearly 1 million Umrah pilgrims and 2 million other worshippers allowed into the holy site to perform prayers amid stringent precautions against COVID-19. “All resources have been utilised to ensure comfort of all worshippers,” Eng. Osama Al Hejeili, the head of the Grouping Directorate, said. “Precautionary measures including physical distancing have been implemented to protect safety of visitors of the Grand Mosque amid integration of services provided to meet needs of the worshippers,” he added.

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