As second wave of Coronavirus disease has grappled the nation, over 4000 Covid care coaches have been deployed across India by the Railways. The Covid care coaches have been deployed in nine stations across four states.  Deployment of Covid-19 care coaches is being done in nine major railway stations in the states of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra. These states are the worst-hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The decision of Covid care coaches comes in the backdrop of these states reporting a severe shortage of beds to accommodate infected patients.

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The Railway Ministry has said in a statement that it is swiftly meeting the demands of Covid-19 coaches from all states under the “current raging second spell of the Covid-19 pandemic” with its fleet of 4,000 coaches which have a capacity of 64,000 beds.

The statement from the Ministry said, “As per currently available data, these facilities are seeing a steady intake registering a cumulative admission of 81 Covid-19 patients and the subsequent discharge of 22 patients. None of the facilities have registered any casualties.”

Covid-care coaches came into existence last year during the first wave of the pandemic in the country.

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In the national Capital-Delhi, the Railway Ministry has provided 75 coaches with 1,200 beds. Out of these, Fifty coaches have been positioned at the Shakurbasti station while the remaining 25 are at the Anand Vihar station. The statement said that there are currently five patients at the Shakurbasti station of whom one was discharged, further adding that 857 patients were admitted and discharged from the facility last year.