A health worker waits inside a booth to collect swab samples of a people for COVID-19 test at a hospital in New Delhi, India, Monday, July 6, 2020. India has overtaken Russia to become the third worst-affected nation by the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





A health worker screens people for COVID-19 symptoms at Dharavi, one of Asia's biggest slums, in Mumbai, India, Monday, July 6, 2020. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Buddhists monks and children look out from the rooftop at a Buddhist mission hostel and school for underprivileged children as an international passenger flight takes off at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport as the authorities eased restrictions imposed as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Kolkata on July 5, 2020. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





In this picture taken on July 8, 2020, a boy covers his face with the scarf of his mother as he walks along the road after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Chennai. India on July 6 became the country with the third-highest coronavirus caseload in the world, as a group of scientists said there was now overwhelming evidence that the disease can be airborne – and for far longer than originally thought. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A police man records a video as activists of Communist Party of India (CPI) and their supporter parties' shout slogans during an anti-government protest in Amritsar, India, 08 July 2020. Protestors alleged that the center and the state governments have failed to tackle the COVID-19 issue. According to protesters, the Narendra Modi-led government has allowed the passing of laws which are against the interests of workers, farmers and common people. (Photo by Raminder Pal Singh/EPA/EFE)





An Indian young man shows the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok on his smartphone wallpaper, in Mumbai, India, 10 July 2020. India's national government in New Delhi has announced it is banning 59 Chinese phone applications – including the increasingly-popular apps TikTok, Helo and WeChat – citing national security concerns. The decision comes amid India's ongoing territorial dispute with China in the Galwan valley of the eastern Himalayan region of Ladakh. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA/EFE)





Indian firefighters try to extinguish flames after a fire broke out at a shopping mart in Jammu, India, 10 July 2020. According to police and media reports, around 30 fire engines engaged to douse the flames which have spread to all the three floors of Vishal Mega Mart shopping complex near Government hospital. No casualties have been reported in the incident so far. (Photo by Jaipal Singh/EPA/EFE)





The body of a man who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is seen on a pyre at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, July 5, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A boy records a video on his phone as water enters a slum area during high tide in Mumbai, India, July 6, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A couple takes selfie in front of Qutub Minar, after authorities reopened it for visitors following a three-month lockdown that was imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India on July 6, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Healthcare workers rest in front of a fan during a check up campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a slum area in Mumbai, India on July 8, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Satyendra Pal, a college student, conducts an open-air class for the students of 9th class from a slum area, who do not have access to internet facilities and miss their online lessons, after authorities closed all the schools in March following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, July 8, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) takes a swab from a vegetable vendor to test her for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a roadside market in Ahmedabad, India, July 7, 2020. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A healthcare worker wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) takes swab from a woman to test for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a residential area in Ahmedabad, India, July 8, 2020. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A doctor works at an COVID-19 isolation center in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, July 8, 2020. India has overtaken Russia to become the third worst-affected nation by the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





A group of children wearing masks look on as health workers screen people for COVID-19 symptoms at a slum, in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, July 8, 2020. India has overtaken Russia to become the third worst-affected nation by the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





A man is helped out by others after burying the body of a relative who died of COVID-19, at a cemetery in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, July 10, 2020. India has overtaken Russia to become the third worst-affected nation by the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





A woman waits for her COVID-19 test at a hospital in New Delhi, India, Monday, July 6, 2020. India has overtaken Russia to become the third worst-affected nation by the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Health workers walk to screen people for COVID-19 symptoms at a slum, in Mumbai, India, Friday, July 10, 2020. India has overtaken Russia to become the third worst-affected nation by the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





A worker cleans an artifical water channel at the 16th century Mughal monument Humayun's Tomb, after it was reopened for visitors which was closed since mid-March as part of measures to try and combat the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in New Delhi on July 6, 2020. India announced on July 6 that it had logged nearly 700,000 coronavirus cases, taking it past Russia to become the world's third-hardest-hit nation in the global pandemic. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)