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Muslims perform Friday prayers in Makkah and Medinah amid coronavirus restrictions

Muslims perform Friday prayers in Makkah and Medinah amid coronavirus restrictions

Muslim worshippers wearing protective masks walk along the path between the Marwa and Safa hills within the Grand Mosque complex in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Makkah. (AFP)

A photograph taken on March 5, 2020 shows the white-tiled area surrounding the Kaaba, inside Mecca's Grand Mosque, empty of worshippers. (AFP)

A photograph taken on March 5, 2020 shows the white-tiled area surrounding the Kaaba, inside Mecca's Grand Mosque, empty of worshippers. (AFP)

Municipal workers clean the floors around Mecca's Grand Mosque on March 6, 2020, a day after Saudi authorities emptied Islam's holiest site for sterilisation over concerns of the new coronavirus COVID-19. (AFP)

Worshippers take photographs of the Kaaba inside Mecca's Grand Mosque. (AFP)

A worshipper wearing a protective mask takes part in the Friday prayers at Makkah's Grand Mosque. (AFP)

Worshippers, some of them wearing protective masks, take part in the Friday prayers in front of Makkah's Grand Mosque. (AFP)

Worshippers, some of them wearing protective masks, take part in the Friday prayers in front of Makkah's Grand Mosque. (AFP)

Worshippers, some of them wearing protective masks, take part in the Friday prayers in front of Makkah's Grand Mosque. (AFP)

Worshippers, some of them wearing protective masks, take part in the Friday prayers in front of Makkah's Grand Mosque. (AFP)

Worshippers, some of them wearing protective masks, take part in the Friday prayers in front of Makkah's Grand Mosque. (AFP)

A photograph shows the white-tiled area surrounding the Kaaba, inside Mecca's Grand Mosque, empty of worshippers. (AFP)

Muslims performed Friday prayers in the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah for the first time since restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus were announced by Saudi Arabia. (SPA)

Muslims performed Friday prayers in the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah for the first time since restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus were announced by Saudi Arabia. (AFP)

Muslims performed Friday prayers in the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah for the first time since restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus were announced by Saudi Arabia. (AFP)

The Imam performs Friday prayers in the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah for the first time since restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus were announced by Saudi Arabia. (SPA)

Updated 6 March 2020 21:52

March 6, 2020 21:45

MAKKAH: Muslims performed Friday prayers in the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah for the first time since restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus were announced by Saudi Arabia.