{"id":161221,"date":"2022-01-01T14:16:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T14:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=161221"},"modified":"2022-01-01T15:02:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T15:02:58","slug":"umrah-trips-will-be-suspended-from-8-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=161221","title":{"rendered":"Umrah trips will be suspended from 8 January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Siti Solehah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 1 January 2022: Umrah trips to Saudi Arabia would be postponed until a later date beginning 8 January, Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin announced today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the government took the action in response to an increase in COVID-19 positive cases, particularly among returnees from the country who carry the more transmissible Omicron variant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khairy further said that booking of new umrah flight tickets had been postponed starting from 1 January 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Umrah pilgrims who return to the nation after 3 January will be subjected to mandatory quarantine at quarantine stations or hotels designated by the National Disaster Management Agency (NADMA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For pilgrims who will depart for the Holy Land from 1 January to 7 January, they are allowed to continue with their journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;However, they have to undergo quarantine at a quarantine station or hotel that has been identified as a quarantine station by NADMA when they arrive in Malaysia,&#8221; he said during a press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Khairy, the Health Ministry discovered 2,763 COVID-19 positive cases among travellers \/ returnees arriving at the international gateway from 1 January to 30 December of last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of that number, he said 1,446 COVID-19 positive cases were detected among those arriving from Saudi Arabia, followed by Singapore (322 cases), Indonesia (264 cases), and the United Kingdom (217 cases).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Non-compliance with the Home Surveillance Order (HSO) has also exposed housemates, family members living in the same house as well as neighbours and relatives who come to visit, to COVID-19 infection.&#8221; ***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: New Straits Times<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Siti Solehah KUALA LUMPUR, 1 January 2022: Umrah trips to Saudi Arabia would be postponed until a later date beginning 8 January, Health Minister,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2729,"featured_media":161222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,8,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[156,12,2729],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DA490851-C272-4DF9-869E-5328A021F876.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161221"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161233,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161221\/revisions\/161233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}