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Railway has cancelled several trains owing to low occupancy and surge in Covid-19 cases across the country during the second wave of the pandemic. But as the daily infections have started showing downward trend in most of the States, a decision has been reportedly taken to restore some special train services from this month to ensure smooth mobility of passengers.
For the convenience of passengers, the Northern Railway has decided to run several Special Trains across few routes of the zone.
All norms of the states and Centre regarding Covid-19, including social distancing, sanitization etc, must be followed in the trains and at the Railway stations. All other precautionary measures associated with Covid-19 should also be ensured, said the Northern Railway in its official notification.
Some of the special train services along with details of train number, routes, frequency are as follows:
For the convenience of passengers, Railways have decided to run the following Special Trains as per the schedule given below:- pic.twitter.com/YWJvHtI3k1
— Northern Railway (@RailwayNorthern) June 8, 2021
Meanwhile, the Railway is contemplating to allow train passengers with a Covid-19 vaccination certificate instead of negative RT-PCR report. A person can also show his/her vaccination certificate on Aarogya Setu app.
Sources claimed that this has been suggested to the Ministry of Railways by several states and any confirmation in this regard is likely to come by June 15.
Earlier on June 6, Minister of Civil Aviation (MoCA) Hardeep Singh Puri had also said that a joint team from several ministries and stakeholders, including the Health Department, were in discussion on allowing air travellers without an RT-PCR test for those who have received both doses of Covid-19 vaccine.
At present, domestic passengers will have to mandatorily produce a negative RT-PCR report before travelling to some states, where active Covid-19 caseload is still high.