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Varanasi: The rising toll of the lethal Covid second wave has left people across the world terrified and anxious, but death in the sacred city of Kashi is still considered a bliss. When most ghats along the Ganga wore a deserted look due to Covid scare, a group of sex workers could be seen dancing at the Manikarnika Ghat, the ‘mahashamshan’ where the fire of pyres never extinguishes.
Maintaining their age-old tradition, the sex workers, referred to as ‘nagar vadhoos’, performed dance before Maha Shamshan Nath, the lord of cremation ground, on the seventh night of Chaitra Navratra on Monday, when the three-day ‘shringar’ of the deity concluded.
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Opinion | Self-regulation: Stay at home for a few weeks, we can surely beat the pandemic
With the biggest ever single-day spike of 1,84,372 fresh cases, India on Tuesday became the second nation in the world after the USA to have recorded the highest single-day spike. The USA had recorded 3.09 lakh cases on a single day on January 8 this year. India has now become the second worst-hit country in the world in terms of recorded Covid cases and third worst-hit nation in terms of active Covid cases. A total of more than 1,000 Covid-related deaths took place on Tuesday alone across India. The daily casualty figure crossed 1,000 for the first time since October 2 when the first wave was at its peak.