Gangasagar Mela: Nearly one million devotees are expected to gather on the banks of the Ganges river this Friday and Saturday for a holy bathe despite galloping COVID-19 infections across the country, an official told Reuters on Tuesday.
A similar big religious festival in the north of India last year helped spread the Delta variant that infected millions of people and killed tens of thousands.
Nearly one million Hindu worshippers are expected to gather on the banks of the Ganges river this Friday and Saturday for a holy bathe despite galloping COVID-19 inf.