COVID-19: Friday prayers offered under special preventive measures
KARACHI (92 News) – As the coronavirus outbreak worsens across Pakistan, the Friday prayers were offered under the special preventive measures in the various cities of country.
Strict arrangements were made at the gatherings of Friday prayers to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
The government and the Ulema appealed to the people to take precautionary measures during the prayers. It directed to the citizens for performing perform ablution or Wudu from their homes, adding that they should offer Sunnah rakats in their homes.
Earlier, in extraordinary preventing measures of coronavirus outbreak, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has issued joint fatwa and postponed all the religious gatherings.
The CII has prepared recommendations regarding the holding of religious congregations in the wake of coronavirus threat. The development came after number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Pakistan rose to 193.