People celebrate the Kumbh Mela festival.

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Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Hindu devotees and holy men gathered and bathed on the banks of the Ganges river, as part of the Kumbh Mela festival and pilgrimage, which is usually marked by this major ritual bathing.

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