Saudi Hajj coronavirus curbs mean 'no work, no salary, nothing'
These are external links and will open in a new window/ With his head in his hands, Sajjad Malik sounds dejected. The taxi booking office he manages near Mecca's iconic Grand Mosque, the Masjid al-Haram, is empty. "There's no work, no salary, nothing," he says. "Usually these two or three months before the Hajj (annual pilgrimage) me and the drivers make enough money to last for the rest of the year. But now nothing." One of his drivers, Samiur Rahman, part of Saudi Arabia's largely foreign private workers, sends the office status updates ...
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