A resident shows the level of water in his cellar area at an apartment following heavy rains in Hyderabad on October 14, 2020. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





People watch an Indian Bollywood movie as cinemas reopen with a special screening for COVID- 19 warriors and their families at the PVR movie theater in New Delhi, India, Thursday, October 15, 2020. Seven months after screens went dark, cinemas reopened Thursday in much of India with mostly old titles on the marquee — a sign of the country’s efforts to return to normal as the pace of coronavirus infections slows but also of the roadblocks that remain. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





A worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) sanitizes seats inside the Inox Leisure movie theatre ahead of its reopening, amidst the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, India, October 13, 2020. (Photo by Niharika Kulkarni/Reuters)





Residents are evacuated from a flooded neighbourhood after heavy rainfall in Hyderabad, the capital of the southern state of Telangana, India, October 15, 2020. (Photo by Vinod Babu/Reuters)





Students wearing protective face masks are seen inside a classroom of a government-run school in Gurugram, India on October 15, 2020. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





Students wearing protective face masks maintain social distance and stand in a line at a government-run school after authorities ordered schools to reopen voluntarily for classes 9 to 12, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Gurugram India, October 15, 2020. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





A worker operates an anti-smog gun at a construction site in New Delhi, India, October 14, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A graphic designer paints a Bollywood movie poster on an aluminium sheet inside a workshop ahead of the reopening of cinema halls, amidst the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kolkata, India, October 13, 2020. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A man walks his cattle along a road on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, October 13, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Commuters wait on a stalled suburban train during a power outage in Mumbai, India, October 12, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A student wearing a protective face masks gets her temperature checked at a government-run school after authorities ordered schools to reopen voluntarily for classes 9 to 12, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Gurugram, India October 15, 2020. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





An artisan paints an idol of Hindu goddess Durga at a workshop ahead of the Durga Puja festival, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kolkata, India, October 15, 2020. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A worker carries a model to decorate a “pandal” or a temporary platform, for the upcoming Durga Puja festival, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kolkata, India, October 15, 2020. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A vegetable vendor wearing face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus sells vegetables to a policeman in Bengaluru, India, Sunday, October 11, 2020. India's confirmed coronavirus toll crossed 7 million on Sunday with a number of new cases dipping in recent weeks, even as health experts warn of mask and distancing fatigue setting in. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





Indians wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus wait at a bus stop in Bengaluru, India, Sunday, October 11, 2020. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





Exile Tibetan Buddhist monks wearing masks as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus walk past a man begging in Dharmsala, India, Tuesday, October 13, 2020. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





A vegetable vendor wearing a face mask partly covering her face waits for customers in Bengaluru, India, Sunday, October 11, 2020. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





An animal is seen grazing in the polluted water of the river Yamuna, covered in foam during a hazy morning, in New Delhi, India, October 14, 2020. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





A cow covered with foam scavenges in the waste left on the banks of the polluted Yamuna river in New Delhi on October 10, 2020. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)





A man checks his body temparature on a device installed at the entrance of a government office, set up as a precautionary measure to check the spread of the coronavirus in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, October 13, 2020. India has registered 55,342 new confirmed coronaviruses cases in the past 24 hours, the lowest since mid-August. The Health Ministry raised India's confirmed total to more than 7.17 million on Tuesday but said the country was showing a trend of declining average daily cases over the last five weeks. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





Priests arrange fruits kept inside a temple as offerings by Hindu devotees as part of a ritual to mark the Annakut festival in Ahmedabad, India, October 13, 2020. According to the priests, the fruits will be distributed among the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) affected believing it will cure them. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)