Health

Coronavirus update: Ajit Pawar urges special trains post-lockdown to ferry migrant workers

Death toll touches 686

DTE Staff

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on April 23, 2020, urged Union Minister for Railways, Piyush Goyal to run special long-distance trains from Mumbai and Pune after the lockdown ends on May 3 to ferry migrant workers stuck in Maharashtra to their native states.

  • India’s tally for cases positive to the SARS-CoV-2 virus reached 21,700 on April 23 morning, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.