Delhi Railway Station To Have Isolation Coaches For COVID-19 Patients

New Delhi:

The Railways won’t run any trains from Anand Vihar station from Monday and all of the platforms can be used to deploy isolation coaches for coronavirus sufferers that the Centre will present to the Delhi authorities to beat the scarcity of hospital beds.

All 5 trains which operated from the station will now be run from Old Delhi railway station until additional orders.

Home Minister Amit Shah earlier Sunday mentioned the Centre would offer 500 railway coaches to Delhi in view of the scarcity of beds.

The Railways has already deployed 54 such coaches on the upkeep depot of the Shakurbasti station and is planning to deploy the remaining coaches on the seven platforms of Anand Vihar station.

There had been 5 trains from Anand Vihar station operated by the Northern Railways. The companies had been to Motihari, Raxaul, Muzaffarpur in Bihar and two trains to Ghazipur metropolis in Uttar Pradesh.

The Railways has deployed 204 isolation coaches in 4 states to date.

Delhi recorded 2,224 recent coronavirus circumstances on Sunday within the highest single-day spike within the nationwide capital, taking the an infection tally to over 41,000, and the loss of life depend mounted to 1,327, authorities mentioned.

This is the third successive day when over 2,000 circumstances have been reported in a day in Delhi. The earlier highest spike in recent circumstances — 2,137 — was recorded on June 12.

56 fatalities have been recorded within the final 24 hours, the Delhi well being division mentioned in a bulletin on Sunday.

The variety of coronavirus circumstances in Delhi is the third-highest within the nation after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.