To date, railways have deployed 204 isolation coaches in four states (representation)
New Delhi:
The railways will not run any trains from Anand Vihar station from Monday and all platforms will be used to deploy isolation coaches for coronavirus patients that the Center will provide to the Delhi government to overcome the shortage of hospital beds.
The five trains that operated from the station will now be operated from Old Delhi station until further notice.
Earlier Sunday, Interior Minister Amit Shah said the center would supply 500 railway cars to Delhi due to the lack of beds.
The Railways have already deployed 54 buses of this type at the maintenance depot at Shakurbasti station and plans to deploy the remaining buses on the seven platforms at Anand Vihar station.
There were five trains from Anand Vihar station operated by the Northern Railways. Services were to Motihari, Raxaul, Muzaffarpur in Bihar and two trains to the city of Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh.
To date, the railways have deployed 204 isolation buses in four states.
Delhi registered Sunday 2224 new cases of coronavirus in the highest peak of a day in the national capital, bringing the number of infection to more than 41000, and the number of deaths rose to 1327, said authorities.
This is the third consecutive day that more than 2,000 cases have been reported in one day in Delhi. The previous highest highest peak of new cases – 2137 – was recorded on June 12.
56 dead have been recorded in the last 24 hours, Delhi Health Service said in a bulletin on Sunday.
The number of coronavirus cases in Delhi is the third highest in the country after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
