The containment measures were introduced after around 400 people in a hamlet near the town of Gokak in Karnataka state gathered at a local Hindu monastery for the horse's funeral on Sunday, Gokak administration official Prakash Holeppagol said.
"The people believed the animal to be God's horse ... it has been at the monastery for some 23 years," Holeppagol said. Authorities have conducted rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 on 25 people with flu-like symptoms in the hamlet so far, all of which had negative results, he said. More tests were planned in the hamlet of roughly 2,000 inhabitants, he said.
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