Indian trains are being turned into hospitals

[John Ashworth]

India has closed its railways for the first time in 167 years. Now trains are being turned into hospitals

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a nationwide lockdown on March 25, Indian Railways took the unprecedented move of suspending passenger trains across the country until April 14.

It was the first time in 167 years that Asia's oldest rail network had been suspended.

Now the railway network has decided to convert as many as 20,000 old train carriages into isolation wards for patients as the virus spreads...

[John Ashworth]

How India’s behemoth railways are joining the fight against Covid-19

India is preparing for a potential surge in Covid-19 patients by tapping into an unusual resource: it’s trains, which power the world’s fourth biggest rail network...