The Taj Mahal, India’s top popular tourist attraction, welcomed visitors again on Monday despite the country’s ongoing fight against the accumulation of infections and deaths in Covid-19.
India has been reporting around 90,000 cases consistent with the day for several weeks and its workload has reached more than 5. 4 million infections since the start of the pandemic. The country is lately the country most affected by the pandemic at the moment, with every indication that it will soon. they surpass the United States as the most affected country.
The Taj Mahal has been closed since india’s first closed in March, yet the central government thought it was time for the world-renowned white marble mausoleum to reopen as the government gradually lifted restrictions.
The tourist site attracts about seven million visitors a year, however, the number of visitors is recently limited to 5,000 visitors according to the day, with strict social estating regulations imposed by officials. In addition, visitors can only buy their tickets now online.
So many sectors in the country, coupled with tourism, were seriously affected after the pandemic epidemic and the era of confinement, with millions of others wasting their jobs, which has led the government to gradually restrict maximum industries to revive its economy and help others make a living.
The reopening of the Taj Mahal is thought to be one of many recent government decisions to economic hardships in a country that is in the fourth phase of easing restrictions – “Unlocking 4” – since early September.