Hajj to begin from Wednesday

For the first time in history, a scaled-down Hajj with only just 1,000 pilgrims will begin on Wednesday.

Up to 1,000 people residing in the kingdom will participate in the Muslim ritual, a tiny fraction of the 2.5 million that attended last year, after what many saw as an opaque selection process that left a wave of applicants rejected.

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Mask-clad pilgrims began trickling into Makkah over the weekend and were subject to temperature checks and placed in quarantine.

Pilgrims are required to be tested for coronavirus before arriving in Makkah and will also have to quarantine after the pilgrimage.