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    India's vast railway system closes to passengers

    Officials take emergency measures to keep the coronavirus pandemic from spreading

    Published:  March 25, 2020 10:27 AP and compiled by Karishma Nandkeolyar
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    India's colossal passenger railway system has come to a halt as officials take emergency measures to keep the coronavirus pandemic from spreading in the country of 1.3 billion. Image Credit: AP
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    India's railways shut down
    The railway system is often described as India's lifeline, transporting 23 million people across the vast subcontinent each day, some 8.4 billion passengers each year. India's rail network, the world's fourth largest, operates more than 12,100 trains carrying passengers and cargo along 67,415 kilometers (41,890 miles) of track. With more than 1.2 million employees, it is the country's largest employer. Image Credit: AP
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    The lifeline was cut Sunday, leaving hundreds of people stranded at railway stations, hoping to be carried onward by buses or taxis that appeared unlikely to arrive. The New Delhi Railway Station - usually populated 24 hours a day with railway staff, shops selling snacks and newspapers, passengers crammed into waiting rooms and indigent people sleeping on the platform - was barren. Image Credit: AP
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    As local governments tightened restrictions on movement, migrant workers hauling backpacks swarmed overcrowded trains across many Indian cities, an exodus among panic-stricken day laborers that sparked fears the virus could spread to the countryside. Image Credit: AP
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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide ``total lockdown'' for 21 days starting Wednesday, ordering one-fifth of the world's population to stay in place. Image Credit: AP
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    India's railways shut down
    Health officials have reported 512 cases of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, and at least nine deaths. From India's first documented case of infection, it took 50 days for the total caseload to cross 200. In the past five days, the number of cases has crossed 500. Image Credit: AP
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    A homeless woman sleeps on a deserted platform of Lokmanya Tilak train terminus in Mumbai, India. Image Credit: AP
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    In this Monday, March 23, 2020, photo, a passenger walks past railway tracks at the deserted New Delhi Railway station during a lockdown amid concerns over the spread of Coronavirus, in New Delhi, India, Monday. India's colossal passenger railway system has come to a halt as officials take emergency measures to keep the coronavirus pandemic from spreading in the country of 1.3 billion. The railway system is often described as India's lifeline, transporting 23 million people across the vast subcontinent each day, some 8.4 billion passengers each year. Image Credit: AP
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    Railway workers wearing masks push a handcart at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in Mumbai, India. Image Credit: AP
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    Indians look out from an overcrowded train to travel home for the Chhath Puja festival dedicated to the Sun God, at a railway station in New Delhi, India, Image Credit: AP

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