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An Oxygen Express, a special train being run by Indian Railways to transport medical oxygen containers in different parts of the country, reached Bhopal on Wednesday morning. The train, carrying 6 oxygen tankers having a combined capacity of 64 MT of the life-saving gas, arrived at Mandideep railway station in Bhopal from Jharkhand s Bokaro.
The train left from Bokaro on Tuesday morning. It covered a distance of 1,180 km (approx) in 17 hours. The train reached Bhopal via Kotshila, Jharsuguda, Bilaspur, New Katni and Jabalpur.
Out of the six tankers, two were unloaded at Jabalpur and four will be unloaded at Mandideep station near Bhopal.
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Bhopal: Mismatch between govt s COVID-19 death count claim, crematorium records
Last rites of 108 people who died of coronavirus in Bhopal were performed on Thursday, a figure vastly different from the Madhya Pradesh government s claim on COVID-19 fatalities that day, according to records maintained by crematoriums and graveyards in the state capital and officials working there. The government had claimed that only eight people had died of the infection in Bhopal district in the last 24 hours (on Thursday).
According to the records with two crematoriums and a graveyard, last rites of 156 people were performed on Thursday in the state capital. Of them 108 were coronavirus-infected, the documents showed.