Friday prayers campaign encourages Kosovo Muslims to get the jab

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Friday Prayers Campaign Encourages Kosovo Muslims To Get The Jab
Kosovo Albanian Muslim Egzon Daka is inoculated after Friday prayers (STR/AP), © AP/Press Association Images
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By Associated Press Reporter

Kosovo’s health authorities are trying a new technique to urge people to get the Covid-19 vaccine.

They are cooperating with the Muslim community at Friday prayers.

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Imams around Kosovo called on the faithful to have the jab, and medical teams waited in the mosques’ yards to inoculate believers.


Friday prayers (STR/AP)
Friday prayers (STR/AP)

Despite a recent fall in daily new cases Kosovo authorities fear a faster spread of the Delta variant which has been noted recently in the country.

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Kosovo recorded only 11 cases and no deaths on Thursday.

Some 42% of the 1.8 million population have been vaccinated.

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