Coronavirus: Hong Kong’s Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple cancels Lunar New Year inaugural incense burning for first time in 99-year history

One of Hong Kong’s largest Taoist temples has for the first time in its 99-year history scrapped the Lunar New Year ritual of burning the inaugural incense stick of the festival, citing the Covid-19 crisis.Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple said on Monday there would be revised arrangements for the Spring Festival worship on February 12, with the city’s fourth wave of coronavirus infections showing no sign of abating.China’s Covid-19 outbreaks force caution as Lunar New Year travel rush begins…

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