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Varanasi administration urges tourists to cancel trip in April amid surge in Covid cases

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Varanasi District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma urged tourists to not visit the holy city in April as coronavirus cases in the city surged at an "unprecedented" rate. A negative RT-PCR test report has been made mandatory for those entering the famous Kashi-Vishwanath temple. The city has 10,206 active infections, the third-highest in the state. 1,585 new Coronavirus cases were recorded on Wednesday.