Hundreds of thousands of Indians gather for Hindu festival, defying COVID-19 surge

Hundreds of thousands of Indians gather for Hindu festival, defying COVID-19 surge

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Prasagraj, India: Hundreds of thousands of Hindu worshipers gathered on the banks of the Ganges India on Friday for a sacred bath despite a 30-fold increase in the case of Coronavirus in the past month.
Hindus believes bathing in the holy river at the Makarsankranti festival January 14 wash sin.

A large number of worshipers were swimming in the holy river where he flowed through the eastern state of West Bengal, who reported most cases in the country after the Maharashtra state in the West.

In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, thousands of worshipers, little wearing masks, attacking river banks in the holy city of Prayagraj.

“I can’t breathe with a mask,” RAM Phal Tripathi, who came with his family from a village in the state of Uttar Pradesh, said that after appearing from the river.

“Every year I come to holy sauce. How can I miss it this year?”

India again faced a surge in the case of Coronavirus, mostly driven by the omicron variant which was very transparent, but was low inpatient, with most people recovering at home.

Doctors have appealed to unsuccessfully to the West Bengal State High Court to reverse the decision to allow this year’s festival, it is worrying it will be a “Super Spreader” event virus.

Last year, a meeting of major religions in North India contributed to a record of the increase in the Coronavirus case.
On Friday, the Ministry of Health reported 264,202 new cases of Coronavirus in the previous 24 hours, taking the total Calculation of India to 36.58 million.

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