Women passengers wait for a local train in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, October 21, 2020. Indian railways has permitted women passengers to travel in local trains during non-peak hours beginning Wednesday, which otherwise has been running only for essential services. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





Motorist ride along a road during a heavy rainfall in Chennai on October 22, 2020. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A mask is put on a statue of the Hindu goddess Durga to spread awareness of Covid-19 at the start of the five-day Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, India on October 22, 2020. (Photo by Dipa Chakraborty/Pacific Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A man exercises at a promenade on a smoggy day in Mumbai, India, October 20, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A taxi driver seen sleeping on his taxi in the middle of a decorated street during the Durga Puja Festival in Kolkata, India on October 22, 2020. (Photo by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Kashmiri government employees shout slogans from an Indian police vehicle after they were detained during a protest in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 21 October 2020. Indian Police used water cannons (purple water) and detained over a dozen employees. The employees were trying to march toward Raj Bhawan, the official summer residence of Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory. The employees were demanding the following: regularization of Minimum Wage Act; regularization of land donors; release of pending wages, immediate release of salaries and provide job to a family member of the employee who was killed in the line of duty. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA/EFE)





Workers stitch garments at a factory of an apparel shop in Jaipur, India, October 20, 2020. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





A cutout of the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity Lakshmi is seen at an entrance of an electronics and appliances shop in Jaipur, India, October 20, 2020. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





A firefighter sanitises the premises of a closed “pandal” or temporary platform, on the first day of Durga Puja festival, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Kolkata, India, October 22, 2020. (Photo by Ranita Roy/Reuters)





Hindu devotees take a selfie in front of an idol of Hindu goddess Durga before prayer at a cordoned off “pandal” or temporary platform, on the first day of Durga Puja festival, amidst the spread of COVID-19 in Kolkata, India, October 22, 2020. (Photo by Ranita Roy/Reuters)





A metro train moves past slums and buildings after the restart of its operations, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, India October 19, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





People are seen at a market amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the old quarters of Delhi, October 19, 2020. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





Women wearing protective face mask commute in a suburban train after authorities resumed the train services for women passengers during non-peak hours, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Mumbai, India, October 21, 2020. (Photo by Niharika Kulkarni/Reuters)





Ragpickers collect recyclables from a dump yard on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, October 23, 2020. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





A woman reacts as a healthcare worker collects a swab sample amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a testing centre, in New Delhi, India on October 17, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Trucks parked outside Snowman Logistics, India's largest cold storage company in Taloja, outskirts of Mumbai, India, Saturday, October 17, 2020. The vaccine cold chain hurdle is just the latest disparity of the pandemic weighted against the poor, who more often live and work in crowded conditions that allow the virus to spread, have little access to medical oxygen vital to COVID-19 treatment, and whose health systems lack labs, supplies or technicians to carry out large-scale testing. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





Flood-affected residents search for their belongings in a flooded housing colony following heavy rains on the outskirts of Hyderabad on October 20, 2020. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





A decorations set up ahead of the Hindu festival “Durga Puja” is pictured in Kolkata on October 18, 2020. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





Children from Sundarban, wearing protective masks, give finishing touches to the artwork and paintings of goddess Durga prior to the Durga puja festival amidst Covid-19 pandemic in Kolkata, West Bengal, India on October 18, 2020. (Photo by Jit Chattopadhyay/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)





Artists work on effigies of demon King Ravana during preparations for the upcoming Dussehra festival in Bhopal, India, 22 October 2020. The festival takes place on the tenth day of the waxing moon during the Hindu month of Ashvin (around September or October). On this day, Rama (god-king and hero of the great Hindu epic Ramayana) vanquished the evil Ravana, the ten-headed demon-king of Lanka who abducted Rama's wife Sita, according to the legend. (Photo by Sanjeev Gupta/EPA/EFE)





An elderly Hindu offers prayers at the Vindhyavasini temple in Mirzapur in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Saturday, October 17, 2020. Health officials have warned about the potential for the coronavirus to spread during the upcoming religious festival season, which is marked by huge gatherings in temples and shopping districts. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Students wearing face masks head towards Rajkiya Balika Inter College following a partial reopening since the nationwide lockdown was imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus disease at Sector 51, on October 19, 2020 in Noida, India. (Photo by Sunil Ghosh/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)