Chandigarh: The Khelo India Youth Games Haryana 2021, which was scheduled to be held between February 5 and 14 this year, has been postponed following surge in COVID cases.
This is for the second time that the games have been postponed.
Earlier, the authorities had decided to hold the games in November-December last year, but the event was postponed due to the pandemic.
About 25 sports events, including five traditional sports such as Gatka, Kalaripayattu, Thang-ta, Mallakhamba and Yogasana, were planned in these games.
Like in the rest of the country, Haryana has been seeing a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases. On January 11 the state detected 5,746 new cases, including 26 Omicron patients, and the number of active cases rose to 26,813 on Tuesday from 1,417 on December 31. Gurugram has the highest number of 11,955 active cases followed by 4,770 in Faridabad, 1,903 in Panchkula and 1,808 in Ambala.
