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Tajikistan's national council of clerics has told mosques to suspend public gatherings, including Friday prayers but excluding burial rites, to protect against the coronavirus, even though the country has not reported any cases, according to Reuters.
The Muslim-majority nation of 9 million people bordering China and Afghanistan has shut its border to citizens from both neighbours as well as South Korea, Iran and Italy.
Authorities also said they were cancelling traditional public festivities related to the Nowruz holiday, or Persian New Year celebrated from March 21-25.
