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As India approaches a total of 3 million cases of coronavirus this weekend, the third largest in the world after the United States and Brazil, the South Asian country continues its delicate balance between allowing public life and primary festivals to continue while adding restrictions to thwart the virus.
On Friday, the country’s Supreme Court allowed three Jainist temples to open for a two-day festival in Mumbai, India’s city hardest hit by the pandemic, leading to fears that devout shrines could be super-emitting sites.
After petitions were transmitted through some devout groups, the court last month reopened the places of worship, arguing that the live broadcast of the rituals was an insufficient replacement for physical visits to the sites.
But many of the country’s regional governments continue to impose restrictions on public gatherings. In the northern state of Punjab, the leading minister limited them to four.
India, a country of 1.3 billion, recorded on Friday 69878 new outbreaks of coronavirus, the fourth consecutive day on which more than 60,000 new ones were added. He had recorded 55794 coronavirus deaths as of Saturday morning.
The country underwent one of the strictest closures in the world since late March, with all those ordered to remain indoors, businesses closed and public transport interrupted. But as the measures went high economic and social cost, government officials began to lift some restrictions in the hope of alleviating suffering.
Complaints have been filed across the country over the country over the shortage of hospital beds, and many have accused the government of failing to make the most of the profits made from the closure.
As public procurement and other spaces with little social distance were allowed to reopen, the instances began to accumulate in congested communities. Now, the number of cases shown in India has increased from two million to nearly 3 million in just over two weeks.
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