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Test for Covid template as Puri temple reopens

WHEN THE Shree Jagannath Temple in Odisha’s Puri, one of the four pilgrimage centres for Hindus, reopens its doors after four months to devotees from across the nation on Monday, it will put to test a strategy that could possibly be a template for other religious shrines in these pandemic times. Forming the core of the strategy is a comprehensive vaccination drive for the temple’s more than…