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Economic Times | 15 Aug, 2020 | 08.34AM IST
Covid updates: Vaishno Devi to reopen from Sunday
Pilgrimage to the cave shrine of Vaishno Devi will resume from Sunday after remaining suspended for nearly five months in view of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Pilgrimage to Vaishno Devi to resume from Sunday after nearly 5 months of suspension
- The yatra was suspended on March 18.
- There shall be a cap of 2,000 pilgrims each day of which 1,900 would be from Jammu and Kashmir and the remaining 100 from outside.
- The pilgrims will be required to install Aarogya Setu App on their mobile phones.
- Wearing face masks and face cover is mandatory and they will have to undergo thermal scanning at yatra entry points
- Children below 10 years, pregnant women, persons with comorbidities and those above 60 years have been advised to avoid the pilgrimage
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- The surges have spread alarm across Europe, which suffered mightily during the spring but appeared in recent months to have largely tamed the coronavirus in ways that the U.S., with its vaunted scientific prowess and the extra time to prepare, cannot seem to manage.
- The continent's hardest-hit countries, Britain, Italy, France and Spain, have recorded about 140,000 deaths in all.
- In addition to clubs and alcohol-fueled street parties, large family gatherings – usually abounding with hugs and kisses -- have been cited as a source of new outbreaks in several European countries.
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