India preliminarily recognizes more than 1,000 positive NCOV at the River Bath Festival, where hundreds of thousands of people gather even though the infection rises.

Of the 50,000 samples taken from the people in Haridwar city along the Ganges, where the Kumbh Mela river bathing festival, 408 positive tests on March 12 and 594 positive samples on April 13, the government

Hundreds of thousands of people applying ashes and Hindu followers on April 14 continue to jostle to soak in the Hangzhou River even though India is recording a daily infection with a record increase.

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"We moved the test samples to take another place to avoid trampling situations," said SK JHA, Haridwar medical director, said.

According to the police, 650,000 believers have a river bath since the morning of April 14 and in some areas, many people are fined because they do not make ways.

JHA said the cases in the city rose to more than 500 cases daily since the festival began.

"There will be a super infection because there is no space for testing for hundreds of thousands of people in a cramped city, and the government does not have enough facilities and manpower", a senior Uttarakhand state official

Hindus followers believe that bathing baths will freely liberate people and Kumbh Mela festivals to bring salvation from the rotation of life and death.

"What you are seeing not Kumbh Mela, which is a Corona atomic bomb," said Indian filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma posted Twitter with a pouting person.

Hindu religions soaked in the Ganges in the Kumbh Mela religious festival taking place in Haridwar City on April 12.

India recorded 184,372 cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, twice as high as in the beginning of the month and raised the total number of national infections to more than 14 million.

Despite the rapid increase in infection, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi refused to decline to organize a festival, expected to last for the whole month, which could be worried about fiercely reacting from religious leaders in the country

"The belief is the most important thing for us. Because of that strong belief that many people come here to soak in Ganga (the name of the Ganges in the name of the goddess in Hindu)", Siddharth Chakrapani, Thanh