Members of the Communist party of India Trade Unions shout slogans as they stage protest against the price increase of petrol in Chennai on July 6, 2021. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





New Indian Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar arrives to take charge in Health ministry in New Delhi on July 8, 2021. (Photo by Prakash Singh/AFP Photo)





Indian laborers plant saplings as part of an annual tree plantation campaign on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in northern Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, July 4, 2021. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Indian laborers prepare to plant saplings as part of an annual tree plantation campaign on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in northern Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, July 4, 2021. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Indian laborers plant saplings as part of an annual tree plantation campaign on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in northern Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, July 4, 2021. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A healthcare worker Nazir Ahmed carries vaccines and looks out from a hillock for Kashmiri shepherds to vaccinate them in Tosamaidan, southwest of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir on June 21, 2021. The challenge for health workers travelling to to long distances for vaccinating mostly shepherds and nomadic herders in the remote meadows of the Himalayan region has not been the treacherous terrain but to persuade women to get COVID-19 vaccines. Fueled by misinformation and mistrust, many residents, particularly in remote rural areas, believe that vaccines cause impotence, serious side effects and could even kill. Some simply say they do not need the shots because they’re immune to the coronavirus. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





Dr. Tajamul-Hussain Khan, chief medical officer unsuccessfully tries to convince a Kashmiri nomad woman sitting on horse back who refused to let her 30 year old son to be vaccinated during a COVID-19 vaccination drive in Tosamaidan, southwest of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir on June 21, 2021. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A Kashmiri shepherd woman watches villagers being vaccinated as she stands outside her hut during a COVID-19 vaccination drive in Tosamaidan, southwest of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir on June 21, 2021. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





Masrat Farid, a healthcare worker, prepares to administers a dose of Covishield vaccine to Rubia Begum inside a hut during a COVID-19 vaccination drive in Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir on June 22, 2021. Farid has traveled to long distances for vaccinating mostly shepherds and nomadic herders in the remote meadows of the Himalayan region of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Her challenge has not been the treacherous terrain but to persuade women to get COVID-19 vaccines. “Everywhere we go it seems rumors reach earlier than we do, and it makes our job difficult”, Farid said recently during a vaccination campaign at a high altitude meadow. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





Healthcare workers Masrat Farid and her colleagues cross a stream near river Sind to reach villages on the upper reaches during a COVID-19 vaccination drive in Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir on June 22, 2021. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A boy bathes under a tap of a municipal tanker on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India, July 6, 2021. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A health worker arrives in a residential neighborhood to collect swab samples from residents to test for COVID-19 during a door-to-door testing drive in Gauhati, India, Friday, July 9, 2021. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Police officers along with a volunteer (C) dressed up as a motorcyclist holding a mockup head with a helmet take part in a road safety awareness campaign, in Chennai on July 7, 2021. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Exile Tibetan Buddhist monks distribute sweets and packets of juice to the public to celebrate the 86th birthday of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, outside the gate of their monastery in Dharmsala, India, Tuesday, July 6, 2021. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





An ambulance carrying the body of Bollywood icon Dilip Kumar arrives outside his house in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. Dilip Kumar, hailed as the “Tragedy King” and one of Hindi cinema's greatest actors, died Wednesday in a Mumbai hospital after a prolonged illness. He was 98. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Moichara or Bull race is a rural festival where a pair of bulls race each other during the monsoon season. This race is performed by a farmer in Parganas, India on July 4, 2021. (Photo by Sumit Sanyal/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A farmer shouts slogans during a protest against the hike in fuel prices, at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in Ghaziabad, India, July 8, 2021. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A municipal worker drives an auto-rickshaw decorated with mock syringes through the streets to boost awareness amid people on the importance of Covid-19 coronavirus vaccination in Chennai on July 3, 2021. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A wild male elephant grazes at the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary on the outskirts of Siliguri on July 1, 2021. (Photo by Diptendu Dutta/AFP Photo)