While the State police on Friday reintroduced the e-pass system for inter-state and inter-district travel in “extreme emergency” situations, there will be no need to get e-pass to travel within city.

Commissioner of Police (CP) Amitesh Kumar said that the citizens can opt their e-pass from e-pass portal: https://covid19.mhpolice.in/.

However, passes will not be given for travelling in city, he said.

It may be mentioned that the police had issued passes for travelling in the city as well as inter-district travel through the portal last year.

The top cop also said, the e-pass is only meant for the personal use of citizens to facilitate their journey in an emergency.

Nagpur city, which has faced an unprecedented surge in coronavirus cases, was already under severe restrictions since April 14 and the fresh “lockdown-like” curbs were announced on Wednesday. The city recorded a total of 7485 cases on Friday.

The railway administration and team of NMC are keeping eye on the passengers arriving from trains at Nagpur Railway station.

A railway official said that passengers of six highly infected states including Rajsthan, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat and Kerala are being checked by thermal scanner. “If anyone is found symptomatic, the NMC team conducts their antigen test,” he said.

Around 17 such trains are passing through Nagpur everyday and about 1,400 passengers of these trains are being checked by thermal scanner for symptoms, the official added.

Rapid Antigen Test of 13 passengers were conducted at railway station on Wednesday and Thursday. Non of them tested positive for COVID-19, the official said.