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'India can open up its locals and metro rail safely even during a pandemic'

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Cities around the world have opened up, but public transport is still largely shut. In Delhi, the metro has been closed for 3 months now.

Is there a viable way to open up public transport safely?There’s so much that we don’t know about the coronavirus and how it spreads.

But we’ve seen enough new evidence to suggest that public transport hasn’t been the super-spreader that many have assumed. In many cities, public transport never shut down during the pandemic, and many people relied on it to reach essential jobs and services every day.There was a lot of concern generated by an MIT study in April that claimed subways seeded the pandemic in New York, but that thesis hasn’t held up.

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