BEST, Metro, Railways Take Measures To Keep Public Transport Clean During #WuhanVirus Outbreak

In the wake of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, our transcos have gotten aggressive in cleaning up their vehicles for better safety of passengers.

Indian Railways on its part has gone straight to announcing that it would no longer issue blankets to AC passengers and has asked them to bring their own.

Reliance Infrastructure-led Mumbai Metro One Private Limited (MMOPL) issued an advisory followed by a thorough scrubbing of trains.

.@MumMetro issues advisory on #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/I8Rla4KmzF

— Tanushree Venkatraman (@tanushreevenkat) March 5, 2020

#CoronaAlert :
Amid fear of #coronavirus & to prevent further spread @MumMetro gears up with cleaning activities. It has also issued advisory urging not to get panic & believe in rumours pic.twitter.com/jVMRDAECRp

— Sweety (@AdimulamSweety) March 5, 2020

Western and Central Railway too did the same, along with exterior vinyl wrappings on trains.

हर किसी को मास्क नहीं पहनना चाहिए।
जानिए, कब और कैसे पहनें मास्क!#COVID19 #IndiaFightsCoronavirus pic.twitter.com/r2HewKuG14

— Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) March 17, 2020

#COVID19 awareness through vinyl wrapping on EMU rakes of Central Railway about DOs and DON'T s, etc pic.twitter.com/rSirnXrvQk

— Central Railway (@Central_Railway) March 17, 2020

#PrecautionAgainstCOVID19: Avoid close contact with people who are suffering from cold, cough or fever. Keep distance between yourself and other people to help yourself & them safe. #NoToCorana #Coronavirus #Covid19 pic.twitter.com/YuTLCOW88J

— Western Railway (@WesternRly) March 17, 2020

Union Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal released a video featuring Amitabh Bachhan on the matter.

Coronavirus से बचने के उपायों की जानकारी @SrBachchan जी ने शेयर की है।

आप भी संक्रमण से बचने के लिये स्वयं भी जागरूक बने, व दूसरों को भी जागरूक करें।#COVID2019 pic.twitter.com/77tMS6kFS4

— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) March 17, 2020

The Railways’ have also set up infrared temperature scanners.

Well, @Central_Railway Mumbai puts up infra-red temperature scanners at entry point of four railway stations in city from today– CSMT, Thane, Dadar and Kalyan. Will be voluntary, not compulsory. @mid_day pic.twitter.com/7LZuxiaKyh

— Rajendra B. Aklekar (@rajtoday) March 17, 2020

BEST on its part released an advisory, which it has stuck inside and outside buses (in Marathi and English) along with images of buses being scrubbed.

Disinfection of bus seats, Holding bars. BEST way to ensure safe travel #NoCoronaVirus #bestupdates pic.twitter.com/yWfH4dF1pg

— BEST Bus Transport (@myBESTBus) March 15, 2020

Preventive measure taken by BEST to disinfect buses. #bestupdates #nocoronavirus #SafetyFirst pic.twitter.com/HhKCVvSfgo

— BEST Bus Transport (@myBESTBus) March 16, 2020

Advisory inside @myBESTBus' AC minibuses on #COVID19 #WuhanVirus pic.twitter.com/CgmRMzkgQF

— Srikanth Ramakrishnan (@rsrikanth05) March 17, 2020

While all this is good, it would help if people maintained their surroundings, refrained from spitting and blowing their nose in transit.

Also Read: Public Transport and Cleanliness

Addendum:

While most people have carefully chosen to refer to the virus as Coronavirus or Novel Coronavirus and made claims that calling it Wuhan Virus is racist, it isn’t. Outbreaks have for long been named after geographical regions. Examples include Ebola, named after the Ebola river, Lyme disease, named after Lyme, Connecticut, the Spanish Flu, Hong Kong Flu and of course, Delhi Belly.

Another Addendum:

The Ministry of Health, Vietnam has released a very catchy song about washing hands. Do take a look here.

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