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The respected living goddess will leave her temple this year, AP reports:
The palace’s old courtyard was filled with thousands more people each year and every year the Indrajatra festival is deserted, temples are locked and all public celebrations are prohibited by the government to stop the coronavirus.
Autumn is the festival season in predominantly Hindu Nepal, where religion, celebrations and rituals are an integral component of life; however, other people this year will have to reduce their rituals at home.
Many in this Himalayan country who would anger the gods avoiding the rituals that would cause disaster. Violent clashes even broke out between police and the faithful defying government orders at a separate tank festival south of Kathmandu.
A lockdown was ordered around the 8 days when the cancelled Indrajatra Festival supposedly took place, and instead a small rite to apologize for Indra, the Hindu god of rain, took place under government security.
During the festival, Kumari, a woman respected as the living goddess, is taken to the central component of Kathmandu in a cart pulled by worshippers. After the cancellation, he never left his temple palace. His tank is locked in the hangar and the armed police. keeps the courts.
“There would be thousands of faithful crowded in the courtyard and on the streets of the festival, which would have put many of them at risk of contracting the coronavirus,” said Gautam Shakya, kumari’s leader’s caretator. “We had to avoid this centuries . . . old festival for the first time. “
Shakya and her circle of relatives have been worried about Kumari for generations. An impeccable woman is selected from single extended relatives and is respected as the living goddess until she is replaced at puberty. Senior officials and commoners touch their feet to unload their blessing. .
A small organization of worshippers who sneaked through blockade and security to pray before the living goddess said they continue the culture followed through their ancestors.
“The festival and Kumari are not just a tradition, it is our culture and a giant component of our life that we cannot avoid for anything, not even because of a pandemic,” said Shanker Magaiya, a washerwoman who may have been offering flowers. and chocolates to the goddess.
Magaiya had their hearts broken by cancellation and said that while they underestimated the government, they had to protect their religion, culture and traditions.
“We have disappointed the gods and will have to keep the gods satisfied so that we can all be satisfied and prosper,” he said.
The Nepalese government imposed a strict coronavirus lockdown in March, which at ease in July.
More than 76,000 people have become inflamed and 491 have died, but the ban on devout festivals and gatherings continues and temples remain closed.
Near Kumari Temple, a huge statue of the Hindu deity Swet Bhairav is only open to the public once a year during the festival. .
This year, the doors were only open and very few people had the opportunity to drink the sacred wine.
The temple priest, Prakash Tamrakar, said the festival was allowed with precautions of social estating and that police blocked the court.
“My circle of relatives has done this for generations and not once have I heard it cancel,” the priest said.
“These parties are made so that we pray to the gods to prevent other people from suffering discomfort and to us from diseases and disasters. “
Just south of Kathmandu, in the city of Lalitpur, a five-story tank with a statue of the deity Rato Machindranath built for a festival that was parked by order of the government.
Frustrated devotees rebelled and thousands of others gathered to pull the tank before this month. They clashed with police who fired tear fuel and water cannons and hit some with lathi, bamboo sticks. Several people were injured and many arrested.
Nepal’s largest and most prominent Dasain festival in October is held for two weeks on public holidays. People can see the extended family, hold daily parties, and stop in temples. However, reduced activities are expected with some bans this year.
“We don’t hold festivals this year for the virus and we don’t have any extra money to spend, however, if we’re alive and healthy, there will be festivals next year and the next year and we’ll have a big party,” he said. Kumar ShresthaArray owner of a confectionery.
North Korea has exposed “defects” in its anti-coronavirus measures, state media said Wednesday, following a protest in South Korea over a citizen that North Korean infantrymen killed near its maritime border, where strict antivirus controls are in place.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made rare apologies for the assassination of South Korean fishing officer last week in waters off the west coast of the peninsula.
North Korea said his infantrymen shot him because he tried to flee without revealing his identity, but denied a South Korean claim that the body was then set on fire, saying that only a flotation device he had used had been burned to prevent the novel. Coronavirus.
Kim convened an assembly of the tough political bureau of the ruling Workers’ Party to review and take action against the coronavirus, the official KCNA news firm said, adding that participants had discovered “some flaws” in its implementation.
KCNA did specify the flaws and mentioned the murder of the South Korean man.
“The assembly wants to watch over complacency, abandonment, irresponsibility and rest in the anti-epidemic field,” the news firm said.
“He also called for an effective implementation of a strong anti-epidemic formula and order. “
North Korea has shown no coronavirus infection and imposed strict virus control measures, adding that the closure of its borders, South Korea, and the United States doubt that they have managed to avoid the pandemic at all.
North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday that efforts to combat his country’s epidemic were “under solid control” and that he would now focus on improving his economy from the basis of his “reliable and effective war deterrence. “
KCNA said the political bureau assembly had also discussed arrangements for the 75th anniversary of the party’s founding on October 10, a vital birthday party that North Korea celebrates with a giant army parade.
Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the North Korean University of Studies in Seoul, said the politburo could have discussed the shooting and replaced those responsible, with the aim of ending the controversy before the anniversary.
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In Australia, the Government of Victoria aims to have all elderly care personnel and high-risk staff tested monthly as the state intensifies its asymptomatic screening program.
Victoria’s Prime Minister Daniel Andrews has announced that 25% of those on the floor in high-risk industries will be tested weekly to check for and prevent epidemics as the state opens up.
This regime will start with 95 companies, mainly meat and poultry processing plants, but is expected to expand in the coming weeks.
Victoria recorded thirteen new cases of coronavirus and four other deaths, raising the death toll in the state to 798 and the national figure to 886. The last victims are a woguy in their 70s, a woguy in their 80s and a boy and a woguy in their 90s.
These new ones raise Melbourne’s average from 14 days to 16. 4 and 0. 3 in the Victoria area:
The number of coronavirus cases in India has increased to 6. 23 million after reporting 80472 new infections in the more than 24 hours, the Ministry of Health’s knowledge showed Wednesday. you have a chance of higher infections with a giant part of the population not yet exposed to the virus, a survey revealed Tuesday.
The British government spent 569 million pounds to buy 20,900 enthusiasts to keep others alive during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the lack of a call means that NHS hospitals have used only a few.
All purchased machines, 2150, are still kept in a Ministry of Defence warehouse if necessary at the time the disease is coming:
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