Hindus gather 650,000 people in the Ganges River to celebrate the “Big Pot Festival” despite the record-breaking number of diagnoses

The pneumonia (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19) continues to rage in Wuhan, South Asia has become a global epidemic hotspot, India in the past 24 hours, more than 184,000 new confirmed cases, another record for India in a single day, the total number of confirmed cases is now up to 13.9 million, becoming the country with the most cases after the United States, but Hindus still gather in the Ganges River bathing and celebrating ” Kumbh Mela” (big pot festival).

According to Reuters, the latest data released by the Indian Ministry of Health today (14), in the past 24 hours, India’s new confirmed cases of 184,372 cases, again refreshing the largest increase in a single day, now the cumulative number of confirmed cases up to 13.9 million; in addition, India yesterday 1027 people died, the cumulative number of deaths is 172,085 people.

Although the epidemic is on the verge of getting out of control, but Hindus still celebrate the “Big Pot Festival”, the police said this morning about 650,000 people bathing in the Ganges River, did not maintain social distance between each other, but also did not wear a mask, the future fear of the epidemic outbreak.