Taj Mahal to reopen tomorrow; guests to keep up social distancing, put on masks

Taj Mahal is all set to reopen its doorways to guests from Monday onward however with a couple of circumstances. Guests to the Taj Mahal must put on masks and keep correct social distancing norms. They will even not be allowed to the touch its glistening marble floor.

Solely 5,000 vacationers shall be allowed on daily basis, and they might be break up into two teams. This may be a lot lower than pre-COVID numbers when round 80,000 vacationers used to go to the Taj Mahal regularly.

“All centrally protected monuments & websites shall be certain by protocols like sanitisation, social distancing & different well being protocols,” the federal tourism ministry stated in a tweet.

Agra was one of many first cities within the nation to have a cluster of coronavirus circumstances. It nonetheless stays one of many worst affected cities in Uttar Pradesh. In response to the native administration, the Taj Mahal is surrounded by containment zones.

“We do not anticipate guests right here as a result of clusters across the Taj, together with retailers and inns are closed,” officers instructed Livemint.

Authorities throughout India are additionally reopening the doorways of different monuments. In Delhi, the Pink Fort is anticipated to open quickly at the same time as variety of circumstances within the nationwide capital continues to rise at a brisk tempo.

Within the final 24 hours, India reported 24,850 recent circumstances which is the brand new highest single-day file. 600 deaths have been additionally recorded. The overall variety of confirmed coronavirus circumstances within the nation has reached 673,165 and is quickly anticipated to cross Russia. India would then have the third-highest variety of COVID-19 circumstances on the earth, after the US and Brazil.

At the same time as circumstances are rising the federal government continues to implement ‘Unlock 2.zero’ with a majority of the lockdown measures already lifted — visiting monuments being one in every of them. Not like worldwide flights that are nonetheless grounded, home flights have been working for a couple of weeks and the federal government now expects individuals to flock to the favored locations, Agra being one in every of them.