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No Metro rail services in Kolkata till March 31, 2020

No Metro rail services in Kolkata till March 31, 2020 The Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Ltd said on Sunday it would suspend its services till March 31 as a precautionary measure to avoid any Covid-19 outbreak, even as the Indian Railways announced it will not run any of its passenger trains in the country till the end of this month. "From tomorrow (Monday) till 24 hours (midnight) of March 31, 2020, there will be no Metro services," tweeted Kolkata Metro. The Kolkata Metro is one of the city's lifelines carrying about 630,000 passengers daily. Nonetheless, the footfall went down after people started remaining indoors and avoiding public transportation. On March 16, Metro passenger numbers fell to around 520,000.