India announced a limited re-opening of its giant rail network beginning on Tuesday after a nearly seven-week lockdown, despite also reporting its biggest single-day jump in coronavirus cases.
FILE PHOTO: A migrant worker, who was stranded in the western state of Gujarat due to a lockdown imposed by the government to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease , looks out from a train that will take him to his home state of eastern Bihar, in Ahmedabad, India, May 8, 2020. REUTERS/Amit Dave
“Thereafter, Indian Railways shall start more special services on new routes,” the government said in a statement. The rail network, among the world’s largest, carries over 20 million people each day and is the lifeline for people living in far flung corners of the country. The number of people who have died from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, has reached 2,206, the ministry of health also said on Monday.
“Overall corona figures rising in Delhi but at the same time people are getting cured and going back home safe. Now we’ve to learn to live with corona,” he said.
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