{"id":75906,"date":"2024-06-23T16:41:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T16:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/heatwave-in-mecca-pilgrims-from-uganda-safe-officials"},"modified":"2024-06-23T17:45:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T17:45:44","slug":"heatwave-in-mecca-pilgrims-from-uganda-safe-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/heatwave-in-mecca-pilgrims-from-uganda-safe-officials","title":{"rendered":"Heatwave in Mecca: Pilgrims from Uganda Safe- Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span><b>All Ugandans who travelled to the holy city of Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage are safe amidst reports that hundreds of pilgrims have died from the scorching heat in Saudi Arabia, officials have said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not received any death though we had three serious cases of pilgrims who were in bad condition but they are promising now. We have managed to provide the necessary medication,\u201d the Secretary General of Uganda Bureau of Hajj Affairs, Sheikh Hassan Bogere who is also in Mecca said on the telephone.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, some of the Ugandan pilgrims arrived in Mecca with pre-existing health conditions, and they had prepared accordingly to manage them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the high temperature in Mecca, we managed to advise pilgrims to perform their rituals in the morning hours and others in the evening when the temperature is manageable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Bogere added that some of the pilgrims are weak but not ill and they are still performing their rituals without any interruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main problem we have is flue and cough,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that the first and biggest group of 260 pilgrims will return on June 24. The second group of 240 pilgrims is expected to return to Uganda on June 25, all using Ethiopian Airlines. The last group will use Uganda Airlines and is expected to return on June 26.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports from Mecca suggest that the death toll from this year\u2019s hajj due to the heatwave exceeds 1,000 with unregistered pilgrims making up more than half of those who perished.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures on Tuesday reached 47 degrees Celsius (117 degrees Fahrenheit) in Mecca and the sacred sites in and around the city, according to the Saudi National Center for Meteorology. Some people fainted while trying to perform the symbolic stoning of the devil.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Uganda Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. All Ugandans who travelled to the holy city of Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage are safe amidst reports that hundreds of pilgrims have died from the scorching heat in Saudi Arabia, officials have said. \u201cWe have not received any death though we had three serious cases of pilgrims who were in bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":75905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-75906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Heatwave in Mecca: Pilgrims from Uganda Safe- Officials - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"All Ugandans who travelled to the holy city of Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage are safe amidst reports that hundreds of ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/heatwave-in-mecca-pilgrims-from-uganda-safe-officials\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Heatwave in Mecca: Pilgrims from Uganda Safe- Officials\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All Ugandans who travelled to the holy city of Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage are safe amidst reports that hundreds of ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/heatwave-in-mecca-pilgrims-from-uganda-safe-officials\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-06-23T16:41:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-23T17:45:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2024\/06\/sm_1719152097.133677.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/heatwave-in-mecca-pilgrims-from-uganda-safe-officials#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/heatwave-in-mecca-pilgrims-from-uganda-safe-officials\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Heatwave in Mecca: Pilgrims from Uganda Safe- Officials\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-06-23T16:41:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-06-23T17:45:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/heatwave-in-mecca-pilgrims-from-uganda-safe-officials\"},\"wordCount\":313,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/heatwave-in-mecca-pilgrims-from-uganda-safe-officials#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2024\/06\/sm_1719152097.133677.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"culture and art\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/heatwave-in-mecca-pilgrims-from-uganda-safe-officials#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/heatwave-in-mecca-pilgrims-from-uganda-safe-officials\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/heatwave-in-mecca-pilgrims-from-uganda-safe-officials\",\"name\":\"Heatwave in Mecca: Pilgrims from Uganda Safe- Officials - 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