India recorded the highest single-day COVID infections worldwide yesterday, September 10 of 96,551 cases. DMRC is to operate from September 12, additional metro trains in Delhi to reduce crowding during this pandemic. On September 13, Sunday, the day of NEET exams, it starts two hours earlier at 6 AM. It is only for the coming Sunday, and after that, all metro trains in all routes will operate like before the COVID 19 regular timings of 6 AM to 11 PM.
Delhi metro trains to operate with regular timings from September 12
DMRC or the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation operates the metro services across Delhi. It shut its services on March 22 due to the lockdown on March 24 because of the deadly virus. After more than five months when the COVID 19 daily infections in India are the highest in the world for the past month, it reopened its services from September 7.
The yellow line had curtailed operations for the past four days and will continue until today, September 11. From tomorrow September 12, all the metro trains will operate as per the regular timings from 6 AM to 11 PM. Additionally, even the fewer trains from 11 AM to 4 PM followed before COVID will now have the same peak frequency of trains from 8 AM to 8 PM.