COIMBATORE: Health and revenue officials in Coimbatore district have set up 13 check posts on the border after it has been made compulsory for all pas.
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COIMBATORE: Isha Yoga Centre has made Covid-19 RT-PCR test mandatory for the public who want to attend their Mahashivratri festival on Thursday. All attendees will have to undergo medical screening.
Several lakhs of people used to attend Mahashivratri at Isha Yoga Centre. This year, organizers are expecting to see only 10,000 attendees due to Covid-19.
Isha Yoga Centre says participants this year are expected to largely join the event online. “Medical screening, social distancing, wearing masks, and carrying sanitizers have also been made mandatory in addition to compliance with all government directives for in-person gatherings,” said a press statement.
Udhagamandalam: Tourist vehicles are still taking Ooty-Kalhatty-Masinagudi ghat road for downhill journey, for which the stretch with 36 hairpin bends was closed two and half years ago because of frequent fatal accidents. Based on a report of then Nilgiris superintendent of police (SP), the district administration issued an order to close the road for tourists in 2018. The order was notified in the Nilgiris district gazette too.
However, the road was opened for tourists on February 8 by the previous SP V Sasi Mohan. But the road was again closed for downhill journey after seven accidents occurred on the road in a span of three weeks, killing one.