Singhal said Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and Special Chief Secretary (Health and Medical) KS Jawahar Reddy took stock of the situation with regard to COVID-19 and made several suggestions to the TTD, The New Indian Express has reported.

TIRUPATI: Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has taken various preventive measures to check the impact of corona virus, said TTD Executive Officer Anil Kumar Singhal.

He inaugurated the Corona virus Awareness and Counselling Center at Alipiri check-post along with Additional EO AV Dharma Reddy and CVSO Gopinath Jatti. Singhal said the TTD has taken measures to arrest the virus impact in Tirumala as the holy hill shrine is visited by lakhs of pilgrims from different places across the country every day.

Singhal said Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and Special Chief Secretary (Health and Medical) KS Jawahar Reddy took stock of the situation with regard to COVID-19 and made several suggestions to the TTD.

Accordingly, coronavirus prevention camps have been set up with thermal guns at Alipiri check-post, near Padala Mandapam at the Alipiri footpath route and also at Srivari Mettu footpath route. “If any symptoms are identified, the pilgrims will be stopped from entering Tirumala and sent to isolation wards at Ruia hospital,” he added.

Sanitation and cleaning is given importance as it is being done in every two hours on the Tirumala temple premises.

The devotees, who have booked darshan tickets till May 31, can reschedule their pilgrimage plans or cancel them. The TTD has also appealed to NRIs and foreigners to postpone their pilgrimage to Tirumala for 28 days from the day they stepped in India.

Meanwhile, the number of pilgrimage has been minimised to Tirumala temple and devotees with time slots can have easy darshan without waiting in the Vaikuntam queue lines.

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