Iranians Return to Friday Prayer Despite Surge in Coronavirus Cases

Iranians in nearly two hundred cities offered Friday prayers in mosques for the 1st time in two months as authorities eased some restrictions to incorporate the coronavirus pandemic, boosting considerations of a new wave of bacterial infections.

Prayer halls and streets main to mosques have been disinfected in progress. State tv showed mosque congregants seated an arm’s distance apart. Worshipers have been requested to carry out ablution at house, bring their have prayer mats and put on masks. Prayer leaders have been requested to shorten their sermons.