People flout Covid-19 norms as they take part in Jallikattu festival in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh

As part of the Sankranti festival celebration, a large number of people participated in the Jallikattu event organized at the Anupalle Village of Ramachandrapuram Mandal in Chittoor.

 

In Madurai, the Jallikattu competition was held at Palamedu.

 

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Hundreds of bulls were released into the crowd of enthusiastic tamers at the end of the second round of competition in Palamedu.

 

The sport which commenced at 7.30 AM was flagged off by Tamil Nadu Ministers P Moorthy and PTR Palanivel Thiyagarajan. 

 

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This is noteworthy that the Tamil Nadu government has issued guidelines for Jallikattu events and has allowed only 150 spectators or 50% of seating capacity. Also, carrying either a full vaccination certificate or negative RT-PCR test report not older than 48 hours was made mandatory to attend the event.

 

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Tamil Nadu on Saturday recorded 23,989 new coronavirus cases and 11 fatalities. This took the total number of cases reported so far to 29,15,948 and the death toll to 36,967. On Friday, there were 23,459 cases and 26 fatalities.

 

The number of active cases, including isolation, has now increased to 1,31,007.

 

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In Andhra Pradesh, the cumulative coronavirus cases touched the 21 lakh mark after 4,955 fresh infections were added on Saturday.

 

The number of active cases rose to 22,870. One fresh fatality increased the death toll to 14,509. 

 

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