{"id":37856,"date":"2021-05-02T04:23:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T22:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=37856"},"modified":"2021-05-02T04:23:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T22:53:43","slug":"70-lakh-participated-in-kumbh-mela-amid-covid-crisis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=37856","title":{"rendered":"70 lakh participated in Kumbh mela amid COVID crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As many as 70 lakh people participated in Haridwar\u2019s Kumbh Mela, the mammoth religious congregation which ended Friday after triggering a scare that it might have acted as a coronavirus \u201csuper-spreader\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[the_ad_placement id=&#8221;w&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A huge number of people gathered around Haridwar to take a dip in Ganga. The event was reduced to just one month and scaled down midway due to the raging pandemic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[the_ad_placement id=&#8221;w&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><em>According to reports, about 2,600 devotees tested positive out of the nearly two lakh tests conducted by medical personnel during the mela.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Three shahi snans took place during the event on April 12, 14 and 27, the last one being reduced to a largely symbolic event.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[the_ad_placement id=&#8221;w&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><em>The crowds began petering out after an appeal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the seers to keep their representation in Kumbh symbolic.<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 70 lakh people participated in Haridwar\u2019s Kumbh Mela, the mammoth religious congregation which ended Friday after triggering a scare that it might have acted as a coronavirus \u201csuper-spreader\u201d. [the_ad_placement id=&#8221;w&#8221;] Held over three months in normal circumstances, the Kumbh Mela this time formally begun as late as April 1 due to concerns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}