NEW DELHI (REUTERS) - India announced a limited reopening of its giant rail network beginning on Tuesday (May 12) after a nearly seven-week lockdown, despite also reporting its biggest single-day jump in coronavirus cases.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW DELHI - India announced a limited reopening 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.
"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, normally 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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