Uttarakhand govt nixes Kanwar Yatra amid threat of third wave

The Uttarakhand government has decided to cancel the Kanwar Yatra for the second year in a row in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. A final decision in this regard was taken on Tuesday during a meeting at the State Secretariat in Dehradun. During the meeting on Tuesday, officials briefed Chief Minister Pushkar Dhami on the possibility of a third wave and the virulence of the Delta Plus variant. Earlier in the day, the Indian Medical Association had urged the Uttarakhand CM to call off the Kanwar Yatra beacuse of the risks posed by the pandemic.

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