Iranians Return to Friday Prayer Despite Surge in Coronavirus Cases

Iranians in just about 200 cities offered Friday prayers in mosques for the very first time in two months as authorities eased some restrictions to include the coronavirus pandemic, elevating considerations of a new wave of bacterial infections.

Prayer halls and streets major to mosques were being disinfected in progress. Point out television showed mosque congregants seated an arm’s distance apart. Worshipers were being requested to conduct ablution at household, carry their own prayer mats and dress in masks. Prayer leaders were being requested to shorten their sermons.

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