Ramadan on collision course with virus for Asia’s Muslims
Bangladeshi Muslims attend ‘Jumatul Wida’, the last Friday prayer in the month of Ramadan at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh on May 31, 2019. Clerics in Bangladesh have lashed out at attempts to reduce the number of people going to the mosques during the fasting month this year amid a pandemic. – EPA pic, April 21, 2020.
ACROSS Asia, home to about half of the world’s Muslims, the coming Islamic holy month of Ramadan is on a collision course with the coronavirus pandemic as clerics call on the faithful to cram into mosques. Authorities have tried to limit the fallout during the sacred period of fasting, which starts Thursday, but in many cases religious leaders have brushed aside concerns about activities that could spread Covid-19.
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