A boy receives a dose of Bharat Biotech's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, Covaxin, during a vaccination drive for children aged 15-18 years in Ahmedabad, India, January 3, 2022. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Girls gesture after receiving a dose of Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin, during a vaccination drive for children aged 15-18 in Mumbai, India, January 3, 2022. (Photo by Niharika Kulkarni/Reuters)





A crying school girl is comforted by a teacher and a health worker after she received vaccination for COVID-19 at a vaccination center in Mumbai, India, Monday, January 3, 2022. India has begun vaccinating teens in the age group of 15 to 18, as more states are enforcing tighter restrictions to arrest a surge of infections stoked by the omicron variant. On Monday, state governments across the country administered doses at schools, hospitals and through special vaccination sites amid a rapid rise in coronavirus infections, particularly in the country's densely populated cities. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





A snake can be seen in a grassland area of Maidan in Kolkata, India, 31 December, 2021. (Photo by Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





Tourists visit the Taj Mahal amidst fog in Agra on January 4, 2022. (Photo by Pawan Sharma/AFP Photo)





A family rides a rickshaw in a crowded market amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the old quarters of Delhi, India, January 4, 2022. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A teacher working at a government school takes online class inside an empty class room in Dharavi, Asia's largest slum in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, January 4, 2022. Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases in Mumbai, including the Omicron variant, the civic body on Monday decided to shut schools of all mediums for classes 1 to 9 and 11 till January 31, a civic official said. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Hindu devotees worship a cow on the banks of River Sarayu on a cold and foggy morning in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Wednesday, January 5, 2022. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Hindu devotees take holy dips and pray on the banks of River Sarayu on a cold and foggy morning in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Wednesday, January 5, 2022. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A medical worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) stands next to a patient suffering from coronavirus disease (COVID-19), sits inside an ambulance, after she arrived to a care centre at an indoor sports complex, amidst the spread of the disease, in New Delhi, India, January 5, 2022. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A health worker wearing a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) suit comforts a child infected with Covid-19 coronavirus inside a ward at the Commonwealth games (CWG) village sports complex, temporarily converted into Covid-19 coronavirus care centre, in New Delhi on January 5, 2022. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)





Commuters leave a platform after disembarking from a suburban train, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a railway station on the outskirts of Kolkata, India, January 5, 2022. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A Hindu holy man, or Sadhu, reacts as a healthcare worker collects a swab sample from him for a rapid antigen test at a base camp where pilgrims gather before heading for an annual trip to Sagar Island for the one-day festival of “Makar Sankranti”, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kolkata, India, January 7, 2022. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Indian soldiers take part in the rehearsal for the Republic Day parade on a cold winter morning, in New Delhi, India, January 7, 2022. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Police barricades are kept along a road leading to the shops at a closed market area amid the ongoing state-wide weekend curfew imposed by the directive of the Delhi government to curb the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus in New Delhi on January 8, 2022. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)





Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, January 8, 2022. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists asked Indian authorities to immediately release journalist Sajad Gul in disputed Kashmir, days after police arrested him for uploading a video clip of a protest against Indian rule. Indian soldiers picked up Gul from his home in northeastern Shahgund village on Wednesday night and later handed him over to the police, his family said. He had posted a video of family members and relatives protesting the killing of a rebel commander on Monday. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





A railway employee sprays disinfectant as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, January 8, 2022. Health officials say the new surge is causing fewer deaths and many cases are asymptomatic. But they warn against taking the omicron variant too lightly, and say that numerous cases, even if milder, could still pressure the country's fragile health system. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





A migrant labourer gets a shave besides a closed shop in a market area in the old quarters of the walled city, Delhi during an ongoing state-wide weekend curfew imposed by the directive of the Delhi government to curb the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus in New Delhi on January 9, 2022. (Photo by Money Sharma/AFP Photo)





People play cricket at a partially deserted market area during a weekend lockdown imposed by the authorities to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Chennai, India, 09 January 2022. The Tamil Nadu state government imposed a complete weekend lockdown and announced new restrictions amid the surge in coronavirus Omicron variant cases. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/EPA/EFE)