With Coronavirus cases climbing at an alarming rate, you’d hope that people would be more careful. But as it turns out, people are having weddings despite the ban on gatherings.
One wedding in Chhatarpur, a town in Madhya Pradesh, India paid a heavy toll for the festivities in quarantine. Turns out one of the wedding guests had tested positive for COVID-19. Now the bride, groom, and about 85 guests are all quarantined.
A wedding guest, a close relative of the bride, came in from Gurugram, to attend a wedding on Sunday. Despite the ongoing global Coronavirus pandemic, the wedding list was nowhere near short.
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Who knows how many people he infected at the mass gathering. The bride’s relative didn’t even test COVID-19 positive until his return home three days ago.
The groom is a farmer, and both families hail from two villages near Ghuvara town. The COVID-19 patient is the brother of a sarpanch (tribal chief).
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According to ARY News, his report came out on the wedding day and the administration rushed to conduct a search for the man. They found him at the wedding near Ghuvara town some 250km from Bhopal.
If that weren’t enough he was cooking sweets for the reception of Laxmi Ahirwar and Avdhesh Ahirwar.
The wedding guests only showed concern amid the merry-making when district officials, led by an additional collector, turned up and broke the news of a ‘COVID-19 positive’ guest.
The groom Avdhesh priorities were still to get married before the quarantine.
“I thought the marriage would be stopped and got worried as there is no good mahurat in the coming days.”
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Rather than clamp down on the event, administrative officials just let the wedding continue. They waited as the rituals continued deep into the night to take them all to a quarantine center.
Additional collector Himanshu Chandra said,
“We did not stop the marriage because of the mahurat, but decided to quarantine the bride, groom and three of their relatives at an institution.”
