India News: DEHRADUN: Senior officials of Uttarakhand police have discounted reports which claimed that the pilgrim headcount of shahi snans was revised from 49 l.
A top Kumbh Mela official Saturday said it was unfair to call it a Covid "super-spreader" as just 0.2 per cent of the total RT-PCR tests conducted in Haridwar from January 1 till the conclusion of the event returned a positive result.
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Seventy lakh devotees participated in Haridwar's Kumbh Mela, the mammoth religious congregation which ended Friday after triggering a scare that it might have acted as a coronavirus "super-spreader".
Kumbh ends: 70 lakh participated in ‘scaled down’ mela held amid virus surge
Held over three months in normal circumstances, the Kumbh Mela this time formally begun as late as April 1 due to concerns over COVID-19.
By PTI| Posted by Nikita Venkatesh | Published: 30th April 2021 8:43 pm IST Seers taking a dip in River Ganges as a part of last royal bath. (PTI photo)
Dehradun: Seventy lakh devotees participated in Haridwar’s Kumbh Mela, the mammoth religious congregation which ended Friday after triggering a scare that it might have acted as a COVID-19 super-spreader .
Despite the huge number of people gathering around Haridwar to take a dip in the holy Ganga, the 2021 event was a comparatively modest event reduced to just one month and scaled down midway due to the raging pandemic.