The festival usually draws large numbers of locals and visitors coming to pagodas for offering incenses and attending the requiem. This year, due to the complicated context of Covid-19 pandemic, pagodas in the province have closed for preventing Covid-19 pandemic as requested by competent authorities. 

As reported, large pagodas of Ve, Thanh, Hong Phuc and Den in Bac Giang provincial city were quiet on August 22 (the full moon day of 7^th lunar month).

Ve pagoda in Bac Giang city on Vu Lan festival this year

Vinh Nghiem pagoda in Yen Dung district, Bo Da pagoda in Viet Yen district, Ha temple in Luc Nam district have also closed and suspended religious and belief practices for strictly observing the regulation of provincial authorities in preventing the pandemic spread.  

Vinh Nghiem pagoda in Yen Dung district closed for preventing the pandemic spread

Early, in a dispatch issued on August 18, the steering committee for Covid-19 prevention and control in the province requested religious worshipping places in the locality to suspend religious practices with large gatherings for preventing the spread of Covid-19 pandemic.

Nguyên Hải (bacgiang.vn)