A family member carries an urn containing ashes from the remains of a COVID-19 victim at an open crematorium on the outskirts of Bengaluru, Karnataka state, India, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





Lemon and chillies, believed to ward away the evil are hung outside a closed shop during restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus in Jammu, India, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. Misinformation about the coronavirus is surging in India as the death toll from COVID-19 rises. Fueled by anguish, distrust and political polarization, the claims are further compounding India's crisis. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Family member of a COVID-19 patient reacts as he waits to refill an oxygen cylinder at a gas supplier facility in New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 8, 2021. Infections have swelled in India since February in a disastrous turn blamed on more contagious variants as well as government decisions to allow massive crowds to gather for religious festivals and political rallies. (Photo by Ishant Chauhan/AP Photo)





Girls walk along with their mother on Eid-al-Fitr day in Srinagar, Kashmir on May 13, 2021. The Jammu and Kashmir authorities tightened COVID-19 curfew on Eid day to stop further spread of COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Faisal Khan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Police personnel gesture to people waiting for their turn to receive a dose of the Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a health centre in Amritsar on May 10, 2021. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





People pray after applying cow dung on their bodies during “cow dung therapy”, believing it will boost their immunity to defend against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Shree Swaminarayan Gurukul Vishwavidya Pratishthanam Gaushala or cow shelter on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, May 9, 2021. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Relatives help Jagdish Singh, 57, out of an ambulance outside a government-run hospital to receive treatment, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh, India, May 11, 2021. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





A man wheels the body of his relative who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outside a government-run hospital, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh, India, May 11, 2021. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





A woman mourns after her husband died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outside a mortuary of a COVID-19 hospital in Ahmedabad, India, May 8, 2021. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Family members of Vijay Raju, who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), mourn before his cremation at a crematorium ground in Giddenahalli village on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India, May 13, 2021. (Photo by Samuel Rajkumar/Reuters)





A nurse poses for a photograph inside a ward at the BKC jumbo field hospital, one of the largest COVID-19 facilities in Mumbai, India, Friday, May 7, 2021. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Health workers and volunteers in personal protective suits wait to receive patients outside a COVID-19 hospital that was set up at a Sikh Gurdwara in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 10, 2021. (Photo by Ishant Chauhan/AP Photo)





A woman mourns after seeing the body of her son who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), outside a mortuary of a COVID-19 hospital in New Delhi, India, May 12, 2021. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Family members pay last respect to their relative Rajendra Prasad Mishra, a 62-year-old man who has lost his life from coronavirus infection before cremation at River Ganges at Phaphamau in Prayagraj, India, Saturday, May 8, 2021. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Relatives stand near the funeral pyre of their loved one who died due to COVID-19 at a cremation ground in Prayagraj, India, Saturday, May 8, 2021. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Relatives stand near the funeral pyre of their loved one who died due to COVID-19 at a cremation ground in Prayagraj, India, Saturday, May 8, 2021. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





An Indian woman getting vaccinated with a dose of COVAXIN against the coronavirus gestures to camera in Gauhati, Assam, India, Monday, May 10, 2021. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





An Indian man reacts inside a COVID-19 care centre and isolation ward facility near a Hospital in New Delhi, India, 10 May 2021. Calls for a nationwide lockdown have been growing as the number of new COVID-19 infections and related deaths stood close to record highs on 10 May. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/EPA/EFE)





A villager offers prayer to a dead body of an elephant, which is killed by lightning at atop of Bamuni hill in Assam's Nagaon district, on May 14, 2021. 18 wild elephants were found dead atop Bamuni Hills in Assam's Nagaon district today after lightning struck them during the showers in the area on May 12, 2021. At least 18 elephants are suspected to have been killed by lightning in northeastern India, officials said on May 13 as they launched a probe into the incident. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)





A woman prays next to the carcasses of elephants that according to the forest officials possibly died because of a lightning strike, on the foothills of the Kundoli reserve forest area in Nagaon district in the northeastern state of Assam, India, May 14, 2021. (Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters)





Girls show their hands decorated with henna designs on the occasion of Eid Al Fitr in the old city of Hyderabad, India, on May 14, 2021. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/China Stringer Network)