Civil defense volunteers stack beds and cots donated by the public for the treatment of COVID-19 positive people at a collection center in Kochi, Kerala state, India, Tuesday, July 28, 2020. India is the third hardest-hit country by the pandemic in the world after the United States and Brazil. (Photo by R.S. Iyer/AP Photo)





Workers of PVR cinemas, a multiplex cinema chain, stand at the food court with face shields and masks during a press preview to show their preparedness with the COVID-19 pandemic in New Delhi, India, Friday, July 31, 2020. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





A man crosses the River Tawi on a horse cart in Jammu, India, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Antelopes run through a field at Kanjari village on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on July 30, 2020. (Photo by Sam Panthaky/AFP Photo)





A trader using a cloth as a protective face mask deals with customers at a livestock market ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in New Delhi, India, July 28, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A trader arrives with a sheep for sale at a livestock market ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in Srinagar July 29, 2020. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A worker wearing protective gear sprays disinfectant inside an empty PVR multiplex that was closed in New Delhi, India July 31, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Aerial photo taken on July 30, 2020 shows a woman walking on a footbridge in a lotus pond at Dal Lake in Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. (Photo by Chine Nouvelle/SIPA Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People push a sheep after buying it at a livestock market ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in Srinagar, July 29, 2020. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





Labourers have their meals inside a closed wholesale market after authorities announced lockdown for one day this week in the West Bengal state, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kolkata, India, July 29, 2020. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A medical health worker collects a sample from a woman using a swab, at a local health centre to conduct tests for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), amidst the spread of the disease, in New Delhi, India July 28, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A Muslim man wearing face mask is seen outside the Jama Masjid (Grand Mosque) after Eid al-Adha prayers, next to a paramilitary soldier, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the old quarters of Delhi, India, August 1, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Josy, a man who sells images of Jesus Christ, wears a mask as a precaution against the coronavirus as he waits for customers in Kochi, Kerala state, India, Friday, July 31, 2020. India is the third hardest-hit country by the COVID-19 pandemic in the world after the United States and Brazil. (Photo by R.S. Iyer/AP Photo)





Students attend a class at their open-air school situated on top of a mountain in Doodhpathri, Indian-administered Kashmir, on July 27, 2020. Schooling in restive Kashmir has been severely disrupted by the pandemic, but also after a strict curfew was imposed almost a year ago when New Delhi stripped the Muslim-majority region of 14 million people of its semi-autonomy. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





An Indian worker crosses a street holding a shovel during monsoon rains in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A vendor arranges facemasks to sell on a roadside in Hyderabad on July 28, 2020. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





Men in personal protective equipment (PPE) spray disinfectant to santize a mall before they reopen in Mumbai, India, July 30, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Cattle Egret reacts in a wetland of outskirts in New Delhi, India, 25 July 2020. Cattle Egret is a cosmopolitan spec​ies of heron and mainly habitat in the warm temperature zones. (Photo by Harish Tyagi/EPA/EFE)





Schoolchildren walk towards their open-air school situated on top of a mountain in Doodhpathri, Indian-administered Kashmir, on July 28, 2020. Schooling in restive Kashmir has been severely disrupted by the pandemic, but also after a strict curfew was imposed almost a year ago when New Delhi stripped the Muslim-majority region of 14 million people of its semi-autonomy. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





Livestock vendors wait for customers to sell goats and sheep ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha at a ground in Chennai on July 28, 2020. Eid al-Adha, feast of the sacrifice, marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and commemorates Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son to show obedience to Allah. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)