Eight places in Mumbai — Wadibunder, LTT Kurla, Matunga, Parel, Lower Parel, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai Central and Bandra Terminus — have been identified to prepare rail coaches to serve as quarantine wards to treat Coronavirus patients. While 482 such coaches will be ready in the next two weeks on Central Railway, on Western Railway, a prototype at Bhavnagar is ready. The rail coaches will be taken to areas where treatment is needed. Sources said though the Western Railway has been given a target of converting 410 coaches, it has about 360 coaches presently that are over 15 years age, which will be used for the wards.

Coaches being prepared
Indian Railways said it is prepared to modify 20,000 coaches into quarantine/isolation coaches to augment the quarantine facilities being created in the country.