Videos have gone viral showing people in the Iranian city licking doors of holy ... Qom, where many cases have been recorded for more than a week so far. There is no need to lick or kiss a ...

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"Stop playing with people's beliefs, coronavirus is nothing in the Shia shrines," one man is recorded saying at the Fatima Masumeh shrine in Qom ... on the entry to Shia holy sites.