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Religious places gear up to reopen from June 8 amid uptick in Covid cases

Prasad, flowers and other items of rituals will be banned, thermal guns will be used to screen people

Workers cleaning disinfectant at Maa Badi Khermai temple ahead of its re-opening, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Jabalpur on Saturday.
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Workers cleaning disinfectant at Maa Badi Khermai temple ahead of its re-opening, during the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown, in Jabalpur on Saturday.

BS Web TeamPTI New Delhi
Having sanitised their premises and equipped with measures to implement social distancing norms, places of worship in Delhi are ready to throw their doors open to the faithful from Monday after remaining closed for nearly two and a half months due to the lockdown prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Due to the surge here in cases of coronavirus infection, various steps have been taken by the heads and management bodies of prominent shrines in the city that draw huge numbers of devotees, such as setting up sanitisation tunnels, prohibiting prasad distribution and floral offerings, using thermal guns to measure body