A woman from India's Dhimal tribal community arranges red chillies, which usually are dried to be exported to Nepal, during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, at Mallabari village, some 34 km from Siliguri on April 27, 2020. (Photo by Diptendu Dutta/AFP Photo)





Lalita Kesharwani, 41, vegetable vendor, poses for a picture in front of her stall during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Mumbai on April 22, 2020. Ahead of May Day on May 1, 2020, AFP portrayed 55 workers defying the novel coronavirus around the world. Lalita, who never shut her shop during lockdown said, We want to serve the people in these difficult times and that gives us satisfaction. She and her husband have been selling vegetables for 22 years and it is now part of their daily routine. With their work they feed their family and also the people who buy at their stall. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)





An Indian woman stacks bricks on her head to carry as she works at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, Thursday, April 30, 2020. India says it has achieved tremendous gains and improvement in curbing the coronavirus infections through a stringent lockdown imposed across the country five weeks ago. The government recently allowed reopening of neighborhood shops in cities and towns and resumption of manufacturing and farming activity in rural India to help millions of poor people who lost work. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





An Indian woman carries bricks as she works at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, Thursday, April 30, 2020. India says it has achieved tremendous gains and improvement in curbing the coronavirus infections through a stringent lockdown imposed across the country five weeks ago. The government recently allowed reopening of neighborhood shops in cities and towns and resumption of manufacturing and farming activity in rural India to help millions of poor people who lost work. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Policemen patrol as stranded students from various districts wait for transport to travel to their hometowns, during lockdown to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Prayagraj, India, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. India last week eased the lockdown by allowing shops to reopen and manufacturing and farming activities to resume in rural areas to help millions of poor, daily-wage earners. But the economic costs of the nationwide lockdown continue to mount in a country of 1.3 billion people. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A homeless man and his son cover themselves with a plastic sheet to protect themselves from rain as they walk to a shelter, during a nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kolkata, India, April 27, 2020. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





People queue outside a book store after a book market opens amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown in Jammu, India, 30 April 2020. Jammu and Kashmir administration allowed the opening of some business activities in urban areas of Jammu region on 29 April, after 35 days of coronavirus lockdown. India's initial 21-day lockdown was extended until 03 May in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Jaipal Singh/EPA/EFE)





Indian laborers kept in quarantine after arriving from outside the state protest against poor treatment at the quarantine center in Prayagraj, India, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. The shelter-in-place orders imposed in India on March 24 halted all but essential services, sparking an exodus of migrant workers and people who survive on daily wages out of India's cities and toward villages in rural areas. Authorities picked up travelers in a fleet of buses and quarantined many of them in empty schools and other public buildings for 14 days. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Ranjan Bind, 43, waste collector, poses for a picture in front of his bike cart in a residential colony during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Faridabad, India, on April 22, 2020. Ahead of May Day on May 1, 2020, AFP portrayed 55 workers defying the novel coronavirus around the world. Ranjan works every day without a single day off. His only preventive measure against COVID-19 is to cover his face with a cloth. He said he works to earn a living and if given a choice, he would prefer to get paid and stay at home. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)





A health worker uses an infrared thermometer to measure the temperature of a labourer at the construction site of a residential building during a nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ahmedabad, India, April 30, 2020. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A health official (L) uses a swab to collect a sample from a man for COVID-19 coronavirus testing from inside a mobile testing van during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, at Changodar village some 20 kms from Ahmedabad on April 23, 2020. (Photo by Sam Panthaky/AFP Photo)





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, India, April 23, 2020. (Photo by P. Ravikumar/Reuters)





Municipal workers decontaminate a market area during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kolkata, India, April 26, 2020. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A local resident dressed as Yamraj or Hindu god of death, wearing a novel coronavirus-themed balloon necklace, gestures as he poses during an awareness about social distancing and staying at home organised by Delhi police during a nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, April 28, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A man gives food to a volunteer to distribut to residents living in a slum on the banks of Yamuna river, during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, April 29, 2020. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





A police officer wearing a protective face mask walks past a novel coronavirus-themed scarecrow cutout put up in a residential area during an extended lockdown to slow the spreading ofthe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the old quarters of Delhi, India, April 30, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A medical worker takes a nasal swab of a Kashmiri girl at a red zone area in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, April 30, 2020. India says it has achieved tremendous gains and improvement in curbing the coronavirus infections through a stringent lockdown imposed across the country five weeks ago. The government recently allowed reopening of neighborhood shops in cities and towns and resumption of manufacturing and farming activity in rural India to help millions of poor people who lost work. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





A doctor examines a student, who studies in Kota town in Rajasthan state and was stranded after a nationwide lockdown was imposed to fight the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), following his arrival in the home state of Gujarat from Rajasthan, at a government office building on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, April 23, 2020. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A family of migrant workers from the Indian state of Maharashtra walk along a National Highway 44 to reach their hometowns during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus on the outskirts of Hyderabad on April 28, 2020. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





Hindu devotees bathe on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya, a annual spring festival which is believed to bring good luck and success, during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, at Narmada river in Jabalpur on April 26, 2020. (Photo by Uma Shankar Mishra/AFP Photo)