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Sri Lanka’s Muslims celebrated the Haj festival yesterday by offering prayers and taking part in other religious activities. In keeping with Covid-19 related health guidelines, those who participated in congregational prayers in mosques and public grounds were checked for fever and were advised to maintain the one-metre physical distancing, as these photographs taken at the Galle Face Green yestrday show.

 Pix by Lahiru Harshana

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