Muslims around the world mark first day of Ramadan amid COVID-19 pandemic

Holiest month on the Islamic calendar started under lockdown or strict social restrictions

Last updated: April 24, 2020 | 16:19

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A man wearing a protective face mask prays in the hallway of a mosque closed due to the outbreak, in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

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Security personnel stand guard as Muslims queue maintaining social distancing before entering a mosque to offer Friday prayers during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Lahore, Pakistan.

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Muslim men attend prayer at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan

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A Muslim man wearing a protective face mask prays at a mosque in Bangkok, Thailand

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A Palestinian Muazzin, a person who calls for prayers, reads the Koran in an almost empty mosque in the northern Gaza Strip.

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Muslim men wearing face masks read the holy book of Quran at a mosque in the religiously conservative province of Aceh, Indonesia.

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A man wearing a face mask reads the Koran after Friday prayers during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in the Al Makmur mosque in Banda Aceh.

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A boy reads holy book of Quran in Peshawar, Pakistan.

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Muslims maintain safe distance as they attend a Friday prayer at Mahabat Khan mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan

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Muslim clerics pray in Cape Town, South Africa.

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