A health worker wears his personal protective equipment (PPE) before collecting samples at a school which was turned into a centre to conduct tests for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), amidst the spread of the disease, in New Delhi, India, August 6, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A herd of goats walk past a parked bus as passengers sit wearing masks as a precaution against the coronavirus in Kolkata, India, Monday, August 10, 2020. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





Hindu priests bathe the idols of Hindu Gods Krishna (L) and his consort Radha in honey during “Abhisheka”, sacred anointing ritual, held as part of Krishna Janmashtami celebrations at the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Temple in Bangalore on August 11, 2020. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran/AFP Photo)





Zoo keepers feed crocodiles in their enclosure at the Madras Crocodile Bank, closed due to the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mahabalipuram, India, August 3, 2020. (Photo by P. Ravikumar/Reuters)





A woman wearing face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks at market in Jammu, India, Thursday, August 6, 2020. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Rescuers work at the plane crashlanding scene at Kozhikode Airport in India's southern state of Kerala, August 7, 2020. The death toll in Friday evening's aircraft crashlanding accident in southern India has risen to 14, with 123 others injured, a local police officer has confirmed. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency)





People gather to look at the Air India Express flight that skidded off a runway while landing at the airport in Kozhikode, Kerala state, India, Saturday, August 8, 2020. The special evacuation flight bringing people home to India who had been trapped abroad because of the coronavirus skidded off the runway and split in two while landing in heavy rain killing more than a dozen people and injuring dozens more. (Photo by C.K.Thanseer/AP Photo)





Medical personnel in personal protective wear stand next to bodies of victims after an Air India Express flight skidded off a runway while landing at the Kozhikode airport iare attended to at the Medical College Hospital in Kozhikode, Kerala state, India, Friday, August 7, 2020. (Photo by Shijith Sreedhar/AP Photo)





Officials inspect the wreckage of an Air India Express jet at Calicut International Airport in Karipur, Kerala, on August 8, 2020. Fierce rain and winds lashed a passenger jet carrying 190 people from Dubai that crash landed and tore in two at an airport in southern India killing at least 18 people and injuring scores more, officials said. (Photo by Arunchandra Bose/AFP Photo)





A man wearing a protective mask pushes a shopping trolley inside a mall after it reopened following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Mumbai, August, 5, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A man helps a woman cross a waterlogged road after heavy rainfall in Mumbai, August 5, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A relative performs the last rites before the burial of a woman who died due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a graveyard, in New Delhi, India, August 7, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Passengers wearing masks wait in a queue to board a bus, after authorities eased lockdown restrictions that were imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kolkata, August 6, 2020. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A woman ties a Rakhi, traditional Indian sacred thread, on the wrist of a municipal worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) to celebrate the Hindu festival of Raksha Bandha, during which a sister ties one or more of the sacred threads onto her brother's wrist to ask him for her protection, after authorities eased lockdown restrictions that were imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kolkata, August 3, 2020. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A child dressed as Hindu Lord Krishna accompanies his family for prayers during Janmashtami, or the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna, at a temple, in Kolkata, India, August 11, 2020. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Indian paramilitary soldiers wearing face masks participate in the final dress rehearsals of India's Independence Day ceremony in Gauhati, India, Thursday, August 13, 2020. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A Naga wearing a face mask leans on a guitar and sits by a deserted road in Kohima, capital of the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, Thursday, August 13, 2020. India has the third-highest caseload after the United States and Brazil, but only the fifth-highest death toll, and authorities say the fatality rate has dropped below 2% for the first time. (Photo by Yirmiyan Arthur/AP Photo)





Indians wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus walk at a market in Jammu, India, Monday, August 10, 2020. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





An exile Tibetan Buddhist nun wearing a mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks past a wall painting with a saying “Taking care of nature is taking care of yourself” in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, August 6, 2020. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





A girl wearing face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus checks an idol of Hindu god Krishna as she shops ahead of festival “Janamashtami” in Jammu, India, Thursday, August 6, 2020. India is the third hardest-hit country by the pandemic in the world after the United States and Brazil. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Health workers screen people for COVID-19 symptoms in Dharavi, one of Asia's biggest slums, in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, August 11, 2020. India has the third-highest coronavirus caseload in the world after the United States and Brazil. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)