Muslims around the world have begun marking a very different Ramadan under coronavirus lockdown.
Mosques stood empty and fast-breaking feasts were cancelled as Muslims around the world began marking Ramadan under coronavirus lockdown on Friday, while a pushback in some countries sparked fears of a surge in infections.
Similar sentiments echoed across the Middle East and North Africa, where multiple towns and cities are under round-the-clock curfew. In Bangladesh, the fundamentalist Hefazat-e-Islam group criticised government moves to restrict access to more than 300,000 mosques nationwide. Several thousand worshippers attended evening prayers Thursday at the biggest mosque in the region's capital Banda Aceh, though crowds were smaller than usual.
"Sales will drop by more than 75 percent compared to previous years," predicted Samer Hallab, a sweets shop owner in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, famous for its Ramadan desserts.
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