Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says mosques and places of worship will remain closed for another two weeks as part of social distancing measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
President Rouhani made the announcement at a meeting of the National Coronavirus Headquarters on Sunday.
“We will hold more meetings and we hope we can find a way for people to be able to use these holy sites,” he noted.
He then touched upon low-risk and medium-risk businesses which have been allowed to resume work across the country, and said they should keep observing health protocols.
The president said restaurants can sell takeaways, but cannot serve customers at the location.
“All locations which are places of gathering will remain closed and all seminars, conferences, ceremonies marking happy occasions, mourning ceremonies, religious congregations and any kind of gathering and all high-risk ones will be canceled until further notice,” he added.
The president further thanked people for abiding by health protocols and on other directives aimed at containing the coronavirus outbreak.
He also expressed his gratitude to medical personnel for their relentless efforts.
President Rouhani underlined that the whole world is now gripped by the pandemic and people across the world are having tough days.
Doha could close the political office of Hamas as part of a broader review of…
Tel Aviv could offer to share control over the Gaza Strip with the US and…
The Iranian foreign minister has called on the Egyptian government to facilitate the transfer of…
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s conference kicks off in Gambia’s capital Banjul.
A group of mourners took to Imam Reza’s shrine in the northeastern Iranian city of…
An Israeli military incursion into Gaza's southern city of Rafah could lead to a "bloodbath",…