Hyderabad: As an Omicron case witnessed a gradual increase in the number, Pastor City urged worshipers to cover and follow all Covid-19 protocols while visiting the temple – especially during special events such as the new year, Mukkoti Ekadashi (the main event was celebrated before Sankranti) and Sankranti .
While footsteps in most temples continued lower than the pre-Covid-19 period, many began visiting places of worship after the locking was appointed.
At the Chilkur Balaji Temple popular this century, for example, the number has fallen more than 50% – from 5,000 worshipers up to 2,000 over the weekend.
“But it is also a significant number and, therefore, it is important for people wearing their masks and maintaining social distance,” said the temple hereditary Imam, C S Rangarajan.
The temple is now preparing for Vaikuntha Ekasadshi to allow road worship through Sanctum Sanctorum, even though while staying with all the Norm Covid-19.
“All through a pandemic, we have strictly followed the Covid-19 standard operating procedure (SOP) issued by the central government and will continue to do so.
Chilkur is the first temple in Telangana to stop the mane, who has been practicing for decades.
Even now we don’t even Allows it, “Rangarajan added, emphasizing the need for worshipers to be careful for the next few months – at least until March, 2022.
In other temples as well, the priests did a little to educate people about the needs of using masks.
“Initially, we had begun to make announcements about the need to wear a mask on our PA system.
We stopped it only when we realized that people had become more aware and understood that they would not be allowed to enter without a mask,” said Sudarshan Shastry, a priest at Ameerpet Temple, admitting that many are still tiring norms.
“More than not wearing it at all, people look wrong.
In most cases they are pulled into the chin.
It is important that this is repaired,” said S Padmanabham, a 60-year-old priest at Sai Baba Temple in Yousufguda.
Being aware of this problem, the trustee of the Bhagyalakshmi temple in the old city, Surya Prakash, has not only started distributing masks among worshipers who appear in places of worship but also take it to educate them on how to use it correctly.