On Video, Hundreds Gather For Friday Prayers Amid Covid In Hyderabad

Hyderabad:

Movies have emerged on social media exhibiting an enormous gathering in Hyderabad for Friday prayers amid the lethal second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that is sweeping throughout the nation.

A few hours after the gathering at Hyderabad’s Mecca Masjid, close to the well-known monument Charminar, for prayers on the final Friday of the Ramzan month for Muslims got here an order of the Telangana authorities banning giant gatherings to minimise Covid dangers.

Not more than 100 persons are to be allowed at weddings and 20 at funerals, and all public gathering of any form, whether or not social, political or non secular are additionally banned within the state.

The movies of the Friday prayers in Hyderabad present lots of gathered underneath a single roof. Most have been with out masks. The scale of the gang left no scope for social distancing – a obligatory security measure urged by well being specialists because the coronavirus is understood to be infectious airborne.

Telangana has been reporting almost 6,000 Covid circumstances a day for a while now, with Hyderabad including over 1,000 circumstances day by day.

Solely right now the state reported over 5,500 circumstances within the final 24 hours, taking the whole caseload to 4.87 lakh.

Including to the issue is a scarcity of vaccines, so choice shall be given to those that have taken the primary dose and are ready for the second, Public Well being Director G Srinivasa Rao stated right now.

Mass non secular gatherings and even election rallies have been criticised as reckless occasions at a time of nice difficulties for residents as a result of second wave of the pandemic.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 18 appealed for the Kumbh Mela – earlier than its scheduled finish date – to be noticed “solely as symbolic amid the coronavirus disaster”. Large gatherings of tens of 1000’s of pilgrims alongside the banks of the Ganga had sparked nationwide considerations as India stored seeing an alarming surge in infections.