The Washington Post
A Hindu religious festival, the Kumbh Mela, held last month, was celebrated by millions who traveled to bathe at the Ganges River. It is not possible to know the extent of how this helped fuel the catastrophic outbreak in India, because contact tracing data is absent. But health researchers, religious leaders and officials in India say the massive gathering was a source of infections, with one expert predicting this could be the largest super spreading event of the coronavirus pandemic.
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