New Delhi: On Sunday, the Delhi authorities additional prolonged the lockdown till May seventeenth owing to the surging Covid circumstances. It was additionally introduced that beginning Monday, Delhi Metro rail providers will stay quickly suspended until 5 am on seventeenth May.
The Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, introduced stricter measures like suspension of Metro prepare providers in a web based briefing.
“We must remember ‘Jaan Hai Toh, Jahan Hai’… this time the lockdown will be stricter and the Delhi Metro will not ply from tomorrow,” he stated within the digital briefing.
This is the primary time for the reason that lockdown got here into pressure on April 19 that the federal government has suspended Metro providers.
DMRC tweeted asserting the suspension of providers, “In the wake of revised guidelines issued today by the Govt. of NCT of Delhi, on extension of Curfew in Delhi for the containment of Covid-19, the Delhi Metro services on all its Lines shall also remain suspended for passenger/essential services from 10 May till 5:00 AM of 17 May”.
Last 12 months the metro providers have been suspended in March when the Centre introduced an entire lockdown within the nation to manage the explosion of Covid-19 circumstances. The providers have been resumed from September 7 in a phased opening underneath the central authorities’s Unlock 4 tips.
With 3,66,161 contemporary infections, India recorded a big drop within the variety of each day Covid-19 circumstances. India experiences 3,53,818 discharges and three,754 deaths within the final 24 hours, as per Union Health Ministry.
