Good Friday Celebration: BMC Issues Fresh Guidelines
Bhubaneswar (Reporters Today Bureau): As the increasing cases of Covid 19, The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) imposed additional guidelines on celebrations of Good Friday in the state capital today. Earlier the BMC had stipulated restrictions on the celebration of festivals and religious festivals falling in April. The stipulations/guidelines mentioned in the official notification will be fully applicable within the BMC limits
The concerned fresh guidelines directed -by BMC for Good Friday:
- Any kind of congregations for the celebration of Good Friday in public is not allowed within the BMC area.
- However, usual religious rituals for the celebration of Good Friday in churches are allowed with a maximum number of 50 participants at one point in time. However, the ceiling of 50 participants is subject to adherence to a social distancing protocol of 6 ft among two-person. In case, the size of the church is such that 50 participants cannot maintain appropriate social distancing among themselves then that many participants are allowed so that they can maintain social distancing of 6 feet. And the number of participants shall not go beyond 50 under any circumstances.
- Church authorities ensure that all the participants wear face masks appropriately at all times.
- Church authorities also ensure that there is the provision of hand wash or hand sanitizer for the participants at the entry point.
- A person having SARI/ILI Like symptoms shall not be allowed inside the church.
- Persons aged above 65, persons with comorbidities, and children below 10 years of age
are advised not to attend such celebrations.
The regulations on celebration of all kinds of religious festivals & functions issued by Govt of Odisha is fully applicable for BMC area as well.
The following additional stipulations on celebrations of #GoodFriday are hereby issued for BMC. pic.twitter.com/jNCaaHdlEp— BMC (@bmcbbsr) April 1, 2021
