
<p>April 29, 2021 &#8211; The Uttarakhand government has decided to suspend the Char Dham Yatra 2021 in view of the worsening Covid-19 situation. An order has already been issued regarding this by Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat. Only priests of the four temples will be able to perform rituals and puja this year.</p>



<p>The move to suspend the Char Dham Yatra comes at a time when Uttarakhand recorded the highest single-day spike of 6,054 new <a href="http://wildhawk.in/topics/Covid-19/">COVID-19</a> cases on Wednesday, taking the tally to 1,68,616, while 108 deaths pushed the toll to 2,417.</p>



<p>Dehradun district accounted for the maximum number of 2,329 cases, followed by Haridwar, which reported 1,178 cases, Udham Singh Nagar 849, Nainital 665, <a href="http://wildhawk.in/topics/chamoli/">Chamoli</a> 175,Pauri 174 Champawat 153, Almora 140, Bageshwar 128 and Tehri 109, a state health department bulletin said.</p>

