The Goa CM said “720 people have booked tickets on the train to get down at Madgaon station. But we have found that hardly anyone of them is Goan.”
Madgaon| The Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant recommended to the Railways that a special train from Delhi to Thiruvananthapuram should not halt in Goa as the state records new cases of coronavirus after a gap of more than a month.
Sawant has also said people travelling to the state in special trains or flights will have to undergo home quarantine for 14 days even if they are non-Goans.
On Thursday, Chief Minister said the state government has recommended to the Railways that a special train from New Delhi to Thiruvananthapuram, which will run on May 15 (and arrive in Madgaon on May 16) should not halt at the station in Goa.
Chief Minister Sawant said “720 people have booked tickets on the train to get down at Madgaon. We have realised that hardly anyone of them is Goan.”
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“We are concerned about what will happen once they get down. We will have to test them. We will advise them home quarantine, but we are not sure if they will do that. That is why we have suggested that the train skip the station.”
A Konkan Railway official said on Friday “We have no order about the cancellation of the stop till now.”
On Thursday, Goa recorded eight fresh cases of COVID-19, after a gap of more than a month. All the eight patients had arrived in the state from outside.
(Inputs from NDTV)
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