The Indian Railways on Thursday cancelling all tickets for regular trains as coronavirus cases in the continues to increase said it would refund all tickets booked for the regular trains between July 1 and August 12 as coronavirus cases continue to increase.

Only special trains announced in May and June will run, the railways said.

Earlier this month, the railways had increased the number of special passenger trains running in the country from 30 to over 200. These include 15 pairs of trains running on the Rajdhani routes since May 12 and 100 pairs operating since June 1.