Kerala CM said the matter has been brought to PM’s attention, while Finance Minister Thomas Issac said ‘Railways wants to be super spreader’.
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala, after Maharashtra, has raised doubts about the management of special trains by the Railways ministry. Kerala says its method of sending trains without prior notice could wreck the state’s protocol to control the COVID-19.
Kerala’s handling of the crisis has been very effective — a matter that has been discussed in foreign media as well.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the issue.
On Tuesday, finance minister Thomas Isaac claimed that the railways “want to be the super spreader” of the virus in Kerala.
However, a railway ministry official denied the claims made by the state government.
“The railways is not running trains to any states without informing them…There is round-the-clock communication with every state,” the official told ThePrint.
The state so far had 896 COVID-19 cases. 72 people who came in from Maharashtra have tested positive for COVID-19 in Kerala along with 71 from Tamil Nadu and 35 from Karnataka.
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From Monday, the centre allowed domestic flights to operate in a limited manner even after some states were reluctant to do so.
The total cases in India surged to 151,767 including over 64,000 cured/discharged or migrated and 4,337 deaths amid lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19.
In the past 24 hours, 170 casualties were recorded. 6,387 cases new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the last 24 hours.
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