{"id":16874,"date":"2020-06-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/06\/22\/reopening-of-malaysian-temples-will-be-gradual\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T12:00:00","slug":"reopening-of-malaysian-temples-will-be-gradual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/06\/22\/reopening-of-malaysian-temples-will-be-gradual\/","title":{"rendered":"Reopening of Malaysian Temples Will Be Gradual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/news\/nation\/2020\/06\/601197\/reopening-temples-churches-will-be-gradual\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.nst.com.my\/images\/articles\/17nt5pic_1592367186.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, June 16, 2020 (New Strait Times): Religious associations and temple managements say there is no rush in reopening places of worship as they wish to avoid any potential Covid-19 clusters. For Malaysian Hindu Sangam (MHS) president Datuk R.K. Mohan Shan, the demand to reopen was dependent on the devotees who had not been able to fulfill their religious obligations. &#8220;Although the National Security Council (NSC) has given the go-ahead to reopen the temples, we are worried that the decision, if made in haste, may not serve the purpose. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to have a temple cluster because of the rush,&#8221; he told the New Straits Times.<\/p>\n<p>Mohan said many of the temple management and committees registered with MHS had voiced similar concerns. &#8220;Temple managements are ready to follow and comply with the standard operating procedures (SOP) like houses of worship can only take in one-third of their usual capacity and attendees must download the MySejahtera application. &#8220;And the temple must also make sure that SOP is adhered by the worshippers, such as social distancing and taking temperature before joining the congregation. &#8220;But we still need to wait for the SOP that the National Unity Ministry is currently drafting.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, June 16, 2020 (New Strait Times): Religious associations and temple managements say there is no rush,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}