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Commuters flashed victory signs as India restarted city metro services Monday after a nearly six-month hiatus, determined to live with the new normal even as the vast nation overtook Brazil as the second-worst coronavirus-affected country.
Masked commuters sat in mostly empty coaches as journalists clambered for pictures at metro stations in the capital New Delhi -- one of the most badly hit cities, along with financial hub Mumbai.
Passengers had to leave empty seats between each other, and could only enter carriages after undergoing temperature screening.
"For our lives to move on, we have to get out of our homes... so this is a good move by the government to start the metro trains," said passenger Deepak Kumar.
"Social distancing is being followed and... people are using facemasks and sanitising," he told AFP.
The resumption of metro services came as the South Asian nation recorded 4.2 million infections since the pandemic began, health ministry data showed.
It surpassed Brazil's total, making it the second-highest tally behind the United States' 6.25 million.
India has also recorded 71,642 deaths, fewer than the 126,203 in Brazil and 188,540 in the US.
Since August the country of 1.3 billion people, home to some of the world's most densely populated cities, has been reporting the highest single-day rises in the world.
On Monday it reported an increase of more than 90,000 cases.
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