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Northern Railway to provide 75 isolation coaches to Delhi

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The second wave of Coronavirus has caused panic throughout the country. The number of corona infected patients is increasing rapidly in metro cities like Mumbai, Delhi. Meanwhile, following the Delhi government’s demand, Indian Railways will provide 75 isolation coaches in the national capital of the country.

There will be 12000 beds as Covid Care Centers at Anand Vihar Terminal and Shakurbasti railway stations. Northern Railway has said in an official statement that 50 Covid-19 isolation coaches are ready for mild corona patients with mild symptoms at Shakurbasti station in Delhi, which has a facility of 800 beds.

This statement further states that 25 coaches will be available for corona patients at Anand Vihar station. Which has the capacity to hold 400 corona-infected patients. Coaches will be installed at different places if needed. Explain that earlier on Sunday, the Delhi government had asked the Indian Railways to provide arrangements to Kovid at Anand Vihar and Shakur Basti railway stations.

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Amid growing cases of coronavirus, the Indian Railways has changed the coaches of 4,002 trains to provide isolation to the state governments with covid care. The Delhi government has ordered that all nursing homes, private hospitals engaged in the treatment of corona should reserve 80 percent of their total capacity for ICU and normal bed corona. Also, keep updating the bed capacity on the government portal.

In Delhi, 25,462 new corona-contracted cases have been reported in the last 24 hours. 20,159 people have recovered in one day and 161 have died. The total number of active cases in the state has been 74,941. A total of 7,66,398 people have been cured and 12,121 people have died so far.

News Source: ANI

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