This year the Hajj operation is being digitalized to facilitate thepilgrims through security and crowd management systems.
An official of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmonysaid, according to the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah, moderntechnologies would help improve the performance of Hajj rituals forpilgrims and maintain their health with quality of services.
The official briefed that this year one million people would perform Hajjin which 850,000 would be from abroad and 150,000 would be local ones.
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To a query, he said the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has not allocatedthe quota to any country yet. The quotas would be allocated to each countrywith the ratio of one to a thousand after taking into account therecommendations of the Saudi health authorities.
