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Thousands of Hindus take holy dip in India, defying COVID surge
2 years, 11 months ago

Thousands of Hindus take holy dip in India, defying COVID surge

Al Jazeera  

Tens of thousands bathe in the frigid waters of the Ganges river in northern India despite rising COVID-19 infections. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu worshippers have gathered on the banks of India’s Ganges river for a holy dip despite a 30-fold rise in coronavirus cases in the past month. “But the saints and a large number of people were bent …

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A million set to throng Ganges for holy dip despite Covid-19 surge
2 years, 11 months ago

A million set to throng Ganges for holy dip despite Covid-19 surge

Live Mint  

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 infections across the country, an official told Reuters on Tuesday. We are trying to implement all COVID protocols," Bankim Chandra Hazra, a West Bengal minister in charge of organising the festival known as …

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A million set to throng India’s Ganges for holy dip despite COVID
2 years, 11 months ago

A million set to throng India’s Ganges for holy dip despite COVID

Al Jazeera  

Nearly one million Hindu worshippers are expected to gather on the banks of the river for yearly pilgrimage in the state reporting the second-highest number of cases. Nearly one million Hindu worshippers are expected to gather on the banks of the Ganges River this Friday and Saturday for a holy bath despite rising COVID-19 infections across the country, an official …

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Scores of dead bodies found floating in India’s Ganges River
3 years, 7 months ago

Scores of dead bodies found floating in India’s Ganges River

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Scores of dead bodies have been found floating down the Ganges River in eastern India as the country battles a ferocious surge in coronavirus infections. Authorities performed post mortems on Tuesday but said they could not confirm the cause of death due to the decomposition of the bodies. More corpses were found floating in the river on …

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Funeral pyres burn. Gravediggers know no rest. India’s COVID-19 crisis is a ‘nightmare’
3 years, 7 months ago

Funeral pyres burn. Gravediggers know no rest. India’s COVID-19 crisis is a ‘nightmare’

LA Times  

The bodies have burned for so long at crematoriums in the western state of Gujarat that furnaces have started to melt. A surge of new cases fueled by the so-called double mutant variant of the coronavirus first discovered in India is now pushing the nation’s overburdened healthcare system toward collapse. It doesn’t matter.” Kodmad, like many other healthcare workers in …

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India: Thousands join Hindu festival ritual bath as COVID surges
3 years, 8 months ago

India: Thousands join Hindu festival ritual bath as COVID surges

Al Jazeera  

Hundreds of thousands flock to take a holy dip in Ganges river even as the nation racks up world’s highest tally of new daily coronavirus cases. The Kumbh Mela – or pitcher festival, one of the most sacred pilgrimages in Hinduism – runs through April and comes during India’s worst pandemic surge, with a record daily tally of 168,912 COVID-19 …

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Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees take holy plunge in Ganges
3 years, 9 months ago

Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees take holy plunge in Ganges

Live Mint  

Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees plunged into India's Ganges river on Thursday as the country kicked off one of the world's largest religious festivals, even as officials reported the biggest spike in coronavirus cases for three months. Hindu ascetics known as Naga sadhus, many naked apart from a coating of ash and carrying swords or tridents, led the bathers …

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