Vegetables adorn temple as Karnataka devotees pray for COVID-19 eradication

Devotees of Goddess Chamundeshwari in Karnataka adorned the temple with cauliflower and various other vegetables as they prayed for the end of coronavirus pandemic. Karnataka on Friday recorded a total of 55,115 confirmed COVID-19 cases, however, authorities said that the testing has been beefed up.

Mandya (Karnataka): Residents of Mandya city, Karnataka in a unique way offered prayers to Goddess Chamundeshwari on the last day of Asadha month to eradicate the coronavirus pandemic.

The devotees decorated the temple with cauliflowers and various other vegetables keeping the social distancing norms and other precautionary measures in focus. In order to contain the spread of the lethal virus, Chandika Yaga, Ganapati Homa, Panchamruta Abhishekam, Rudrabhishekam, Kumkumarchana were performed, the temple's priest said.

As India becomes the third country to cross 1-million COVID-19 cases, a record number of 115 COVID-19 patients succumbed to the virus in Karnataka, even as 3,693 new positive cases were reported, raising the state's tally to 55,115, a health official said on Friday.

Meanwhile, 3,693 new COVID cases emerged in the state, the majority of them in Bengaluru, 2,208, increasing the city tally to 27,496, out of which 20,623 are active.

Cauliflowers adorn temple

Meanwhile, Medical Education Minister K. Sudhakar said Karnataka is among the states which are conducting more number of COVID tests per million population as recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

With inputs from agency