Policemen gesture as they ask people to move to a safer place as smoke rises to the sky following an explosion at an oil well operated by the state owned Oil India Limited (OIL) in Baghjan, Tinsukia district in the northeast Indian state of Assam on June 9, 2020. (Photo by Partha Sarathi Das/AFP Photo)





An employee of a restaurant reads a newspaper at a shopping mall that reopened in New Delhi, India, Monday, June 8, 2020. India is reopening its restaurants, shopping malls and religious places in most of its states after a more than 2-month-old lockdown even as the country continues to witness a worrying rise in new coronavirus infections (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Migrant workers from other states rest on a pavement as they wait for trains to their home states in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, June 9, 2020. India is reopening its restaurants, shopping malls and religious places in most of its states after a more than 2-month-old lockdown even as the country continues to witness a worrying rise in new coronavirus infections. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





A roadside flower vendor covers his face with a mask and sells flowers outside a temple, in Prayagraj, India, Monday, June 8, 2020. Religious places, malls, hotels and restaurants open Monday after more than two months of lockdown as a precaution against coronavirus. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Shoppers use an escalator while maintaining social distance in a mall in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. With thousands of cases reported daily now India stands the fifth highest in the world of coronavirus cases. There has also been a surge in infections in rural India following the return of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who lost their jobs during the lockdown. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A waiter wearing personnel protection kit serves food in a restaurant in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. With thousands of cases reported daily now India stands the fifth highest in the world of coronavirus cases. There has also been a surge in infections in rural India following the return of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who lost their jobs during the lockdown. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Christian devotees offer prayers at Saint Mary's Basilica opened after lockdown in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, June 9, 2020. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





A Naga woman walks past shops in a market area in Kohima, capital of the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. (Photo by Yirmiyan Arthur/AP Photo)





An Indian priest covers his face with a mask as a precaution against coronavirus and prays at a temple, in Prayagraj, India, Monday, June 8, 2020. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Beauticians wearing protective gear tend to their customers inside a parlor at a shopping mall after authorities allowed the reopening of malls in Ahmedabad, India, June 8, 2020. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A man is consoled by his relatives as he sees the body of his father who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), before his burial at a graveyard in New Delhi, India, June 8, 2020. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





In this Wednesday, June 10, 2020 photo, people look on as health workers take swab test for COVID 19 in New Delhi, India. Two and a half months of nationwide lockdown kept numbers of infections relatively low in India. But with restrictions easing in recent weeks, cases have shot up, raising questions about whether authorities have done enough to avert catastrophe. Half of Delhi’s 8,200 hospital beds dedicated to COVID-19 patients are already full and officials are projecting more than half a million cases in the city alone by July 31. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Naga women wearing masks walk in a market area in Kohima, capital of the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. India reported a new rise of nearly 10,000 coronavirus infections Wednesday, with a total caseload of 276,583, the fifth highest in the world. There has also been a surge in infections in rural India following the return of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who lost their jobs during the lockdown. (Photo by Yirmiyan Arthur/AP Photo)





A man prays inside an ISKCON temple after the opening of most of the religious places after India eases lockdown restrictions that were imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ahmedabad, India, June 8, 2020. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A woman rides a bicycle carrying a child after some restrictions were lifted during a nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, India, June 8, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A Hindu priest performs a religious ritual along with devotees in a temple after places of religious worship, hotels, restaurants and shopping malls are allowed to operate again following more than two months of lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Hyderabad on June 9, 2020. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





A policeman wearing a mask as a protection against the coronavirus keeps guard outside a half-closed shop in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, June 9, 2020. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





Commuters are seen in a traffic jam during rush hour as places of religious worship, hotels, restaurants and shopping malls are allowed to operate again after more than two months of lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Mumbai on June 8, 2020. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)





Indian man dress as lord Hanuman as other dance and pray in Hamuman temple after places of worship were allowed to re-open with strict guidelines in New Delhi, India, 08 June 2020. Countries around the world have started to ease COVID-19 lock-down restrictions in an effort to restart their economies and help people in their daily routines after the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Gym owners and trainers hold banners as they stage a protest demanding the government to allow them to open their fitness centres, after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, on the outskirts of Amritsar on June 7, 2020. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)