According to the Ministry of Health, 10-20 pilgrims and 10-20 locals are reporting positively every day.
A team from the Ministry of Health has told that about 10-20 pilgrims and 10-20 local people are being told positive every day at the ongoing Kumbh Mela in Haridwar, Uttarakhand. In cases of such a rate, it had the ability to rapidly change to ‘prefix’. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat gave importance saying that negative COVID-19 test will not be a requirement for those wishing to come to Haridwar.
The Uttarakhand government was also told that the daily test numbers in Haridwar, around 50,000 rapid antigen tests and 5,000 RT PCR tests were insufficient, given the expected number of pilgrims.
The team visited Uttarakhand on 16 and 17 March under the leadership of Sujit Kumar Singh, director of the National Center for Disease Control in Delhi.
Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, wrote a letter to Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Utpal Kumar Singh on Sunday highlighting the concerns raised by the NCDC-led team.
The government has been advised to follow the guidelines of the Ministry of Health such as display signage, raising awareness of the symptoms of self-reporting of suggestive cases of COVID-19, especially to increase testing in potentially high transmission areas For, periodic continuation. Testing of frontline workers before and after the major auspicious days of the 30-day festival. To increase the number of cases, the state must be “sending immediately” samples for genome sequencing.
Mr. Rawat’s predecessor, Trivendra Singh Rawat, did a negative test as part of the standard operation procedure for pilgrims. After a meeting of the state cabinet last week, Rawat said that guidelines such as “masking and sanitizing” would be followed to prevent any ‘smooth’ movement of people. “We have increased the number of buses to take people and perspectives to various pilgrimage sites. This event happens once in 12 years and it would be wrong to discourage people from taking a holy dip. “
Mail-related ceremonies are expected to last several days in April next month, with the “royal bath” (royal bath) expected to see upwards of 5 million in a single day. A formal order specifying the new guidelines, which the pilgrims are expected to make public by the end of this month, is expected to be followed.
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