Indian villagers pray to ‘Goddess Corona’

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Transit of Venus seen in New Delhi, India

Residents of an Indian village have erected a shrine to “goddess corona” and are offering her prayers in a bid to beat the deadly virus. Devotees in Shuklapur village, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, have also been offering holy water, and flowers at the bright yellow shrine where they have placed their idol of “Corona Mata”. The numbers have dropped in the village and are now sharply lower than they were at the height of the pandemic.

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