{"id":19645,"date":"2020-06-24T02:52:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T17:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/23\/saudi-arabia-bars-foreign-pilgrims-from-hajj-over-coronavirus-fears"},"modified":"2020-06-24T02:52:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T17:52:35","slug":"global-report-covid-19-restricts-hajj-and-germany-locks-down-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19645","title":{"rendered":"Global report: Covid-19 restricts hajj and Germany locks down district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pilgrimage to Islamic holy sites usually attracts 2.5m visitors; about 360,000 Germans face new restrictions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Saudi Arabia<\/strong> has said only Muslims living in the country can take part in this year\u2019s hajj pilgrimage, while Germany has locked down an entire district, as several countries around the world responded to fresh outbreaks of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi\u2019s hajj minister, Muhammad Benten, told a virtual press conference that the annual pilgrimage to the Islamic holy sites of Mecca and Medina, which usually draws 2.5 million visitors, would be limited to a few thousand residents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/23\/saudi-arabia-bars-foreign-pilgrims-from-hajj-over-coronavirus-fears\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilgrimage to Islamic holy sites usually attracts 2.5m visitors; about 360,000 Germans face new restrictionsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSaudi Arabia has said only Muslims living in the country can take part in this year\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[452,50,1069,526,533,1476,447,212,56,371,419,398,849,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-france","category-germany","category-hajj","category-islam","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-new-zealand","category-religion","category-russia","category-saudi-arabia","category-sweden","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19646,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19645\/revisions\/19646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}