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Amid COVID-19, Haridwar administration issues new SOPs for immersion of ashes

People coming to immerse the ashes will have to show a negative report of RT-PCR 72 hours before.
DNA - Published

HC: Meat ban matter of fundamental rights, not of majority vs minority

In a country where 70% of the population eats non-vegetarian food, the matter of banning meat is one that concerns the fundamental rights of citizens and isn’t a majority versus minority issue, the..
IndiaTimes - Published

Guru Purnima 2021: Devotees need negative Covid-19 report in Haridwar, only 'symbolic snan'

Devotees will be allowed in Haridwar if they produce a negative RT-PCR report not older than 72 hours, but they won't be allowed in the 'snan'
DNA - Published

‘Can’t play around with lives’: Pushkar Dhami calls off kanwar yatra

“At a time when the threat of Covid-19 is still looming and a case of the Delta-plus variant has also been reported from Uttarakhand, we cannot allow Haridwar to become a hotbed of the pandemic,”..
IndiaTimes - Published

Devotees in Haridwar say 'not scared of coronavirus', openly flout COVID-protocols

While medical experts say that the nation is not yet out of the woods, some defiant tourists say they are not scared of the COVID-19.
DNA - Published

Kumbh fake tests: FIR against private agency, 2 labs

Haridwar police on Thursday filed an FIR against Delhi-based Max Corporate Services — the private agency under the scanner for conducting nearly one lakh fake Covid tests during the Kumbh Mela in..
IndiaTimes - Published

Firm in dock for fake Kumbh tests has tin shed ‘office’, gave wrong addresses

A private agency, which was awarded the contract for Covid testing in key areas of the Kumbh mela in Haridwar and is now under scanner for conducting 1 lakh fake tests, had submitted dubious office..
IndiaTimes - Published

1 lakh Covid-19 tests during Kumbh festival fake: Report

Just days after a preliminary probe by the Uttarakhand health department suggested that many of the four lakh Covid test results issued during the Kumbh festival in Haridwar were fake, a detailed..
IndiaTimes - Published

135 fresh undisclosed deaths in Uttarakhand hospitals

Close on the heels of the Covid care centre (CCC) at Baba Burfani Hospital in Haridwar not disclosing 65 deaths, unrecorded fatalities in hospitals across Uttarakhand are now tumbling out — from..
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No record of 65 deaths at Haridwar Covid facility

The Uttarakhand state health department has issued a notice to Baba Barfani Hospital in Haridwar — set up as a dedicated Covid healthcare centre to cater to patients during Kumbh — for hiding..
IndiaTimes - Published