Maha: Nod for inter-district travel in long-distance trains
Urban affairs ministry to issue SOPs for functioning of metro trains 56% of cases from 5 states: Centre
Interdistrict travel will now be permitted on special long-distance trains as per the Maharashtra government’s latest set of guidelines for the Covid
19 “unlock” phase, a railway official said on Tuesday.
While restrictions have not been eased for local trains, frequency of special long-distance trains, which are currently being plied, also remains unchanged, the official said.
Passenger reservation system has been enabled and starting September
2, people can travel in long-distance trains only on reserved tickets, he said.
This travel will be restricted on special trains, which are being plied to Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and other states, he said, adding that the railways is currently running 32 such trains and there will be no change in the frequency.
Earlier, long-distance trains were only running from the station of origin to the destination, without any stops in between.
However, these trains will now stop at various stations in the state along the way depending on their scheduled stops, the official added.
Meanwhile, the Union Housing and Urban Affairs (HUA) ministry is likely to issue detailed standard operating procedures (SOPs) on Wednesday for the functioning of metro trains allowed under the 'Unlock 4' guidelines, an official said.
Ministry secretary Durga Shanker Mishra held a meeting with all managing directors of metro rail corporations on Tuesday to finalise the Standard Operating Procedures.
Mumbai, Sept. 1:
New Delhi, Sept. 1: Five states — Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh — have accounted for over half of the total Covid-19 cases and close to 60 per cent of the recoveries reported in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday.
Cumulatively, these five states reported 536 deaths in a day which is over 65 per cent of the total fatalities registered in the country during the period.
India reported 69,921 new instances of coronavirus infection in 24 hours taking the country’s tally of cases to 36,91,166.
The death toll mounted to 65,288 with 819 more fatalities being reported during the same period, the official data updated on Tuesday 8 am showed.
Simultaneously, continuing the streak of posting over 60,000 recoveries daily for the past five days, India saw 65,081 people recuperating from coronavirus infection in 24 hours taking the total recoveries to 28,39,882.
The recovery rate has risen to 76.94 per cent, it said. In these 24 hours, Maharashtra reported
11,852 new coronavirus infections, Andhra Pradesh 10,004, Karnataka
6,495, Tamil Nadu 5,956 and Uttar Pradesh 4,782.
Together, they account for 56 per cent of the cases added in a day, the official statistics revealed.
These five states have also reported the maximum number of patients that were cured and discharged in 24 hours, cumulatively accounting for 58.04 per cent of the total 65,081 people who have recovered during the period across the country.
While Maharashtra reported 11,158 recoveries in a day, the corresponding figures for Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka stand at 8,772 and 7,238 respectively. Tamil Nadu registered 6,008 recoveries, while in Uttar Pradesh the figure stood at 4,597.
Maharashtra has reported 184 new deaths, Karnataka 113, Tamil Nadu 91, Andhra Pradesh 85 and Uttar Pradesh 63.
In total, these five states have registered 536 deaths which is 65.4 per cent of the 819 fatalities reported in a day nationwide.
While the recovery rate has risen close to 77 per cent, the case fatality rate has further dropped to 1.77 per cent. The number of recoveries is 3.61 times the active cases of the viral infection.
“India has more than
20.53 lakh recovered people than the active cases that stand at 7,85,996 on Tuesday,” the ministry said and underlined that the number of recovered patients has grown four times between the first week of July and the last week of August.
As per Indian Council of Medical Research, a cumulative 4,33,24,834 samples have been tested up to August 31, with
10,16,920 of them being tested on Monday.
THESE FIVE states have also reported the maximum number of patients that were cured and discharged in 24 hours, cumulatively accounting for 58.04 per cent of the total 65,081 people who have recovered during the period across the country.