Kumbh Mela is a religious festival in Haridwar city in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. The devotees would be marking it as an auspicious bathing day . Officials are struggling to impose safety norms due to huge crowds.
Hindu’s belief in the holy river and its power to cleanse their sins and bring salvation to them , attracts the devotees to the river .
The Kumbh Mela takes place every 12 years and the venue is chosen from amongst four cities , from Allahabad, Haridwar, Nasik and Ujjain.
Haridwar is the chosen state among the rise in the covid cases with 100,000 cases per week . On Monday, India logged more than 168,000 new cases, overtaking Brazil to become the country with the second-highest number of cases globally.
India is now only behind the United States which has reported more than 31 million cases. With 13.4 million cases, Brazil is now at number three. Health experts had appealed for the Kumbh Mela festival to be cancelled, but the government went ahead saying safety rules would be followed.