Labourers build cremation platforms to meet the increase of cremations due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic at a crematorium in Amritsar on April 29, 2021. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





An exhausted municipal worker rests after bringing the body of a person who died of COVID-19 for burial in Gauhati, India, Sunday, April 25, 2021. As India suffers a bigger, more infectious second wave with a caseload of more than 300,000 new cases a day, the country’s healthcare workers are bearing the brunt of the disaster. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Exhausted workers, who bring dead bodies for cremation, sit on the rear step of an ambulance inside a crematorium, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Delhi has been cremating so many bodies of coronavirus victims that authorities are getting requests to start cutting down trees in city parks, as a second record surge has brought India's tattered healthcare system to its knees. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





People prepare a funeral pyre for a family member who died of COVID-19 at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for mass cremation of COVID-19 victims in New Delhi, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Indian authorities are scrambling to get medical oxygen to hospitals where COVID-19 patients are suffocating from low supplies. The effort Saturday comes as the country with the world’s worst coronavirus surge set a new global daily record of infections for the third straight day. The 346,786 infections over the past day brought India’s total past 16 million. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A woman wait to receive the of the COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre In Mumbai, India, Saturday, April. 24, 2021. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





Police personnel help an elderly woman outside a vaccination centre In Mumbai, India, Saturday, April. 24, 2021. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





Birds fly over the deserted old city during a weekend lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus in Prayagraj, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Children with painted faces in the art of the bahurupi tradition in Bardhaman, India on April 24, 2021. Impersonators family where their generations are engaged in making face painting and can easily metamorphose into different characters during a performance, as per different Traditional & Tribal myth which is the main earning source for their family. (Photo by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A municipal official, second right, reprimands street vendors for not wearing face masks properly during a lockdown imposed due to rising number of COVID-19 cases in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. India, a country of nearly 1.4 billion people, Wednesday became the fourth nation to cross 200,000 deaths. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





An exhausted health worker in protective suit takes rest after carrying a body of a person for cremation in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Coronavirus cases in India are surging faster than anywhere else in the world. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A Hindu man offers prayers at the confluence of rivers Ganges and Yamuna in Prayagraj, India, Sunday, April 25, 2021. After having largely tamed the virus last year, India is in the throes of the world’s worst coronavirus surge and many of the country’s hospitals are struggling to cope with shortages of beds, medicines and oxygen. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Workers can be seen at a crematorium where multiple funeral pyres are burning for patients who lost their lives to Covid-19 on April 29, 2021 in New Delhi, India. With recorded cases crossing 380,000 a day and 3000 deaths in the last 24 hours, India has more than 2 million active cases of Covid-19, the second-highest number in the world after the U.S. A new wave of the pandemic has totally overwhelmed the country's healthcare services and has caused crematoriums to operate day and night as the number of victims continues to spiral out of control. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Getty Images)





A family member carries wood to prepares funeral pyres for their relative who died from COVID-19 disease before cremation at Ghazipur cremation ground in New Delhi on April 26, 2021. In India the highest single-day spike in coronavirus infection. The report recorded 352,991 new Covid-19 cases and 2,812 deaths in the last 24 hours amid an oxygen crisis. (Photo by Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A man makes a cremation platform to burn a body of a person who died of COVID-19 in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Relatives and municipal workers in protective suit bury the body of a person who died due to COVID-19 in Gauhati, India, Sunday, April 25, 2021. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Ambulances carrying COVID-19 patients wait for their turn to be attended out side a government COVID-19 hospital as a worker erects a sun shade in Ahmedabad, India, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





People line up dead bodies of those who died of COVID-19 at a crematorium, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





A relative of a patient argues with a police officer outside a government COVID-19 hospital in Ahmedabad, India, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





A boy reacts next to the body of his father, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 24, 2021. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Family members mourn after Shayam Narayan is declared dead outside the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) casualty ward, at Guru Teg Bahadur hospital, amidst the spread of the disease in New Delhi, India, April 23, 2021. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)