NEW DELHI: India reported 75,809 cases in the last 24 hours which took the total number of Covid-19 cases to 42,80,423 on Tuesday. 1,133 new death cases lead the death toll to 72,775. At present, India has 8,83,697 active cases while 33,23,951 people have recovered.

The mismanagement of containment zone, surveillance, and clinical management strategies for Covid-19 in several states is the main source of the rapid rise in COVID cases.

After five months of suspension, metro rail services restarted in some parts of the country. Facemasks and social distancing protocols are mandatory to board the trains. Tokens or cash transactions are discouraged and only smartcards are allowed in many cities. Based on central guidelines, the metro authorities of Delhi, Noida, Chennai, Kochi, Bengaluru, Mumbai Line-1, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Maha Metro (Nagpur), Kolkata, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh have prepared their standard operating procedures. Maharashtra will not be resuming the metro operation this month.