Ending longest shutdown, Assam’s Kaziranga national park set to welcome tourists from Oct 21
Guwahati, Oct 19: Ending longest shutdown, the iconic Kaziranga National Park in Assam will reopen from October 21 after being shut since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the monsoon season.
Kaziranga
National
Park
&
Tiger
Reserve
will
be
opened
for
the
current
tourist
season
on
21st
October
2020.
The
opening
ceremony
will
commence
from
11am
onwards.
Hon'ble
Chief
Minister
of
Assam
will
grace
the
occasion.
The park is thronged by domestic and international tourists in large numbers for its famed one-horned rhinos. In September, the Assam government had approved expansion of the park totalling 3,053 hectares.
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All five national parks and 18 wildlife sanctuaries in Assam, including KNPTR, which usually remains shut for around five months annually due to floods, were closed in March following the Covid-19 outbreak.
All tourists will have to go through a screening process and anyone detected with Covid-19-related symptoms such as high fever, cough and could will be segregated and handed over to local health authorities.
The elephant safaris won't be allowed to operate during the first few days of the park's reopening and may resume from November.