After the Centre’s nod two weeks before The Bangalore Metro has started operations in a graded manner after services that remained suspended for over five months in view of the covid-19 pandemic.

The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation has made it mandatory for commuters who travel to wear masks, else they won’t be allowed inside the stations.

Passengers will only be allowed to use smart cards and no tokens will be sold at the counters. There won’t be any card recharge counter open at the stations.

Passengers traveling in metro will also have to undergo thermal screening at the entrance of the Metro station. In order to ensure social distancing, yellow queue strips have been marked in front of the ticket counters, escalators and lifts, and on platforms in front of each door of every coach.

Around 400 commuters will be allowed at a time inside a train. Alternate seats are to be left vacant and standing is allowed only at the yellow strip marked location. 50 people will be allowed inside the stations except terminal and interchange stations.

Data provided by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) war room, the positivity rate from October 1 to 10 is 14.53%

New cases reported on yesterday is 3,776 Covid 19 positive were from Bengaluru Urban & Total active case of COVID 19 is 113459.