”Innovation has been a gamechanger for us and it will continue to be an arrowhead for us in the decade ahead. Innovation also in terms of how we reach out to customers, that’s going to be the most critical part of what we do,” Cadila Healthcare Chairman Pankaj R Patel said .

With no clear or agreed upon standard for a vaccine passport, vaccine inoculation rates vastly uneven and new variants of the virus threatening the progress already made in some nations, it’s unclear when Saudi Arabia will play host again to the millions more Muslim pilgrims it planned to receive in years to come.