What's the reason tens of thousands of Indians jumped into the Ganges to bathe?

Tens of thousands of Indians jumped into the Ganges River to bathe because they believe the river's waters can wash away viruses.

It has been reported that tens of thousands of Hindus jumped into the Ganges River to bathe on March 11, which is the festival of Lord Shiva in India. On the global are quite nervous about the epidemic situation, many Indian people do not care, and will not deliberately focus on epidemic prevention. Many Hindus say that the Ganges will bless them and will help them remove the virus from their bodies.

The Ganges is India's mother river, just like our Yellow River. The Yellow River is, for us, just a different kind of sentiment. The Ganges River in the hearts of Indians is also the same, or even have a deeper emotional attachment.

It can be said that the Ganges River is the soul of India, for the Indians, this river carries more of their faith. For Hindus, it is the most sacred symbol, a lifetime must at least to the Ganges River purification once.

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. p>The Ganges is increasingly polluted

What should be the cleanest river in the world is alive and well, but it is being spoiled by the world's dirtiest river. The Ganges has an E. coli indicator that is more than 100 times the safety alert, and fecal-related polluted water tests are 200 times higher in the Ganges than in safe rivers.

Not only human beings defecate on the Ganges, but even many animals, including cows, which have a very high status in India, defecate in the Ganges in India. There are many cows gathered along the Ganges, some of them are kept by people and some of them are not kept by people, and they are not cared for when they die on the Ganges, and the pollution is very serious.

Every year there are about 540,000 tons of garbage into the Ganges, even if the garbage floating in the Ganges, probably 200 million tons, untreated industrial wastewater, is as high as 6.2 million cubic meters.