Workers hold documents as they wait for their turn to receive the first dose of Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus in a passenger bus converted into a mobile vaccination centre at a wholesale market in Kolkata on June 3, 2021. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





A vendor wearing a protective mask sells dairy products at the town square during a lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Dharmsala, India, Saturday, May 29, 2021. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





A Kashmiri shopkeeper cleans the display of his shop that was opened following a partial relaxation in the lockdown imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, May 31, 2021. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





Relatives of Rakesh Pandita, a politician who was killed late Wednesday, mourns at their residence in Jammu, India, Thursday, June.3, 2021. Assailants fatally shot the politician belonging to India’s ruling party in disputed Kashmir, police said Thursday, blaming separatist rebels for the attack. The unidentified assailants fired at Pandita late Wednesday in the southern town of Tral, where he was visiting a friend, police said. He was declared dead in a hospital. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Indian man Himanshu, wearing personal protective suit as a precaution against the coronavirus distributes free aid procured by him to people living in a small island in River Yamuna in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (Photo by Amit Sharma/AP Photo)





Hindu decorate with flowers over 560 unclaimed clay urns containing ashes of people who died due to Covid-19 coronavirus on the banks of river Cauvery before a mass immersion ritual organised by the government of Karnataka, in Belakavadi Village in Mandya District situated about 125 Km from Bangalore on June 2, 2021. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran/AFP Photo)





A street vendor sleeping in his mobile stall, during lockdown due to COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, in Guwahati, India on 05 June 2021. India reported 120529 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, its lowest daily spike since April 7. (Photo by David Talukdar/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Passengers walk outside the New Delhi railway station in New Delhi, India, Monday, June 7, 2021. Businesses in two of India’s largest cities are reopening as part of a phased easing of lockdown measures in several states now that the number of new coronavirus infections in the country is on a steady decline. (Photo by Ishant Chauhan/AP Photo)





Passengers walk outside the New Delhi railway station in New Delhi, India, Monday, June 7, 2021. (Photo by Ishant Chauhan/AP Photo)





Cab drivers await passengers outside the New Delhi railway station in New Delhi, India, Monday, June 7, 2021. (Photo by Ishant Chauhan/AP Photo)





In this June 5, 2021, file photo, a farmer waits for customers at a wholesale market on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India. On Monday, June 7, 2021, businesses in two of India’s largest cities, New Delhi and Mumbai, are reopening as part of a phased easing of lockdown measures in several states now that the number of new coronavirus infections in the country is on a steady decline. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A health worker takes a swab sample of a woman to test for COVID-19 in Kusehta village north of Prayagraj, India, Saturday, May 29, 2021. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A family member of a person who died due to COVID-19 lights the funeral pyre at a crematorium in Jammu, India, Monday, May 31, 2021. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





ENT specialist Dr. Brajpal Singh Tyagi (L) performs a surgery to remove black fungus (Mucormycosis) from a patient who recovered from the Covid-19 coronavirus at a hospital in Ghaziabad on June 1, 2021. (Photo by Prakash Singh/AFP Photo)





A health worker administers the AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 in a paddy field in Tral village south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, June 5, 2021. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A relative comforts wailing son of a person who died of COVID-19, at a crematorium in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, May 28, 2021. India's death toll is the third-highest reported in the world after the U.S. and Brazil. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





Radha Gobindo Pramanik holds photographs of his daughter who died of COVID-19 in Lucknow, India, Thursday, June 3, 2021. Two months ago Pramanik and his wife threw a party to celebrate their daughter's pregnancy and the upcoming birth of their long-awaited grandchild. Within days, his wife, his daughter and his unborn grandchild were all dead, among the tens of thousands killed as the coronavirus ravaged India in April and May. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A health worker in protective suit takes a nasal swab sample of a man to test for COVID-19 in Kusehta village north of Prayagraj, India, Saturday, May 29, 2021. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Social worker volunteer Ashok Kurmi, dressed as a clown interacts with children while he sanitises a football and spread awareness to follow the Covid-19 coronavirus safety protocols inside a slum area in Mumbai on June 2, 2021. (Photo by Indranil Mukherjee/AFP Photo)





Social worker volunteer Ashok Kurmi, dressed as a clown checks his mobile phone while sitting inside a car before going into slums to start a sanitation work and spread awareness to follow the Covid-19 coronavirus safety protocols, in Mumbai on June 2, 2021. (Photo by Indranil Mukherjee/AFP Photo)





People cross waterlogged railway tracks next to a parked passenger train during heavy rains in Mumbai, India, June 9, 2021. (Photo by Hemanshi Kamani/Reuters)