A labourer sits next to closed shops as he waits for daily work during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Kolkata on April 22, 2020. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





An Indian mango vendor pushes his cart during lockdown to prevent the spread of new coronavirus in Hyderabad, India, Sunday, April 26, 2020. A month long restrictions in this country of 1.3 billion people have been eased somewhat by allowing neighborhood shops to reopen and manufacturing and farming activities to resume in rural areas to help millions of poor daily wage earners. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





A Kashmiri Muslim man offers prayer on the banks of Dal Lake on the second day of Ramadan during lockdown to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, April 26, 2020. Kashmiri shrines that are usually packed with devotees during the holy month of Ramadan wore a deserted look Sunday as authorities closed the shrine for the safety of the public. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





Labourers move a cart loaded with rice bags inside a food processing unit, which was reopened after weeks-long shutdown to slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, April 20, 2020. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A man drives an auto-rickshaw depicting the coronavirus to create awareness about staying at home during a nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Chennai, April 23, 2020. (Photo by P. Ravikumar/Reuters)





People ride past a graffiti on a road depicting the coronavirus, as an attempt to raise awareness about the importance of staying at home during a nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, April 20, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Healthcare workers enter a resedential area to check residents during a nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, April 20, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Women carry fodder for their cattle through a mustard field on Earth Day, amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on the outskirts of Srinagar on April 22, 2020. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





People walk in between water pipes as they cross Mahim creek on Earth Day, during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, April 22, 2020. (Photo by Hemanshi Kamani/Reuters)





Birds walk on the bank of the river Yamuna on Earth Day next to two crouching men, near the Signature bridge, after air pollution level started to drop, during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New Delhi, April 22, 2020. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





Vehicles queue in a long traffic jam at Delhi-Ghaziabad border after local authorities stopped vehicular movement except for essential services during an extended lockdown to slow the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New Delhi, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Health workers wearing protective gear walk on a railway track as they arrive in a slum area for a door-to-door verification of people to find out if they have developed any of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) symptoms, in Kolkata, April 24, 2020. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A man removes weed from the algae-covered Anchar Lake ahead of Earth Day, amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Srinagar April 21, 2020. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





Police officers wearing protective masks work inside a call centre run by Uttar Pradesh state police during an extended lockdown to slow the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Lucknow, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Pawan Kumar/Reuters)





A health worker uses an infrared thermometer to check the temperature of a labourer sitting on wheat crop in a tractor trolley at an entry gate of a wholesale grain market, during a nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Chandigarh, April 20, 2020. (Photo by Ajay Verma/Reuters)





Gohar Sultan (70) looks on as her family eats an Iftar meal at their house, on the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the old quarters of Delhi, India, April 25, 2020. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





A youth walks on the parched bed of a temple tank during a hot day in Chennai on April 24, 2020. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A Muslim worker offers Friday prayers as he stands under vermicelli arranged to dry used to make traditional sweets dishes popular in the fasting month of Ramadan, during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, at a factory in Allahabad on April 24, 2020. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





The reflection of a man dressed as Hindu deity of death Yamaraj (R) to raise awareness about the coronavirus is seen on the wing mirror of a vintage car during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Kolkata on April 24, 2020. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





A artisan displays a COVID-19 coronavirus model next to Hindu idols during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Kolkata on April 23, 2020. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)