Indian Railways suspends all train services from Delhi’s Anand Vihar station; here is why

The Indian Railways has suspended all train services from Monday at Delhi's Anand Vihar railway station, as number of COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the national capital. This comes following a decision by the Centre to provide Delhi government with 500 railway coaches, turned into isolation wards, to augment the shortage of beds in view of the rising number of coronavirus cases in the city. All the platforms at the station have been reserved for the deployment of isolation coaches for coronavirus patients and that has left no room for plying of other trains..

Five trains were operating from the station. All of these trains have now been moved to Old Delhi station till further orders. The Railways has already deployed 54 such coaches in the maintenance depot of the Shakurbasti station and is planning to deploy the remaining coaches on the seven platforms of Anand Vihar station, PTI said.

Out of five, two trains were running to Ghazipur city in Uttar Pradesh, while the other three were to Motihari, Raxaul and Muzaffarpur in Bihar.

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Delhi recorded 2,224 fresh coronavirus cases on Sunday in the highest single-day spike in the national capital, taking the infection tally to over 41,000, and the death toll mounted to 1,327. On Monday, the country witnessed a spike of over 11,000 cases second day in a row with 325 deaths taking the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 3,32,424, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data revealed.

According to the ministry, at least 11,502 fresh cases were recorded in the last 24 hours -- the fourth consecutive day showing an increase of over 10,000 cases.