Malaysia cancels Hajj for 2020 amid coronavirus
The Government of Malaysia is not sending Hajj pilgrims to Makkah this year in light of the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic. This year’s Hajj starts around July 28 and the country was due to send about 31,600 pilgrims. “The pilgrimage for all Malaysians for the Hajj season of Hijrah 1441 is postponed to next year,” Dr. Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri, a minister in the prime minister’s office, said on Thursday
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