Over 1,500 mosques in the holy city of Makkah are ready to welcome worshippers on Sunday as coronavirus curfew is lifted.
Mosques have been thoroughly cleaned and sanitised and measures have been put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Doors and windows will remain open during prayers and prayer spaces have been marked to ensure that worshippers maintain a distance of 2 meters from each other.
Although Saudi Arabia will lift a curfew to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on Sunday at 6 a.m., the Umrah pilgrimage and international flights remain suspended.
The kingdom has recorded 154,223 cases of COVID-19 and a total of 1,230 deaths, the highest in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council.
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