FILE PHOTO: A Senegalese Mourides brotherhood follower walks out the Grand Mosque Massalikoul Djinane after the Friday prayer in Dakar, Senegal March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Sylvain Cherkaoui
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese President Macky Sall announced the re-opening of mosques and churches and the easing of other restrictions imposed to contain the coronavirus, even as the largest one-day jump in cases was recorded on Monday.
Sall ordered places of worship closed in March and imposed a dawn-to-dusk curfew. Since then, the daily pace of new cases has picked up, 177 on Monday from a previous high of 104, with increasing community transmission in hotspots such as the holy city of Touba.
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