Policemen check papers of a commuter during lockdown in Jammu, India, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





A grocery shop employee, wearing face mask as a precaution against coronavirus, calls a customer living on the second floor to come down to receive their delivery in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. The world's largest democracy went under the world's biggest lockdown Wednesday, with India's 1.3 billion people ordered to stay home in a bid to stop the coronavirus pandemic from spreading and overwhelming its fragile health care system as it has done elsewhere. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Birds gather on the Chowpatty beach during the first day of a 21-day government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai on March 25, 2020. India's billion-plus population went into a three-week lockdown on March 25, with a third of the world now under orders to stay indoors, as the coronavirus pandemic forced Japan to postpone the Olympics until next year. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)





Volunteers of a Non-Governmental Organisation distribute food to migrant workers during the first day of a 21-day government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Chennai on March 25, 2020. India's billion-plus population went into a three-week lockdown on March 25, with a third of the world now under orders to stay indoors, as the coronavirus pandemic forced Japan to postpone the Olympics until next year. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





Hiralal, a daily wage laborer, leaves for his village as the city comes under lockdown in Prayagraj, India , Thursday, March 26, 2020. Some of India's legions of poor and people suddenly thrown out of work by a nationwide stay-at-home order began receiving aid distribution Thursday, as both the public and private sector work to blunt the impact of efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic. Untold numbers of them are now out of work and many families have been left struggling to eat. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





A girl dressed in traditional attire to celebrate "Gudi Padwa", or the Marathi New Year, stands by a window and holds a placard with an acronym for the Coronavirus that reads in hindi “Nobody should come out on the roads”, in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. The world's largest democracy went under the world's biggest lockdown Wednesday, with India's 1.3 billion people ordered to stay home in a bid to stop the coronavirus pandemic from spreading and overwhelming its fragile health care system as it has done elsewhere. For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





A migrant worker carrying a fan walks along a road as his leaves India's capital for his home during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in New Delhi on March 29, 2020. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)





People buy groceries at a supermarket during the first day of the 21-day government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Bangalore on March 25, 2020. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran/AFP Photo)





Rickshaws are parked on a roadside during the first day of a 21-day government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Kolkata on March 25, 2020. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





A man wearing a facemask feeds pigeons on a empty street during a 21-day government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Kolkata on March 26, 2020. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





An Indian railway police officer blocks a staircase at an empty railway station during lockdown in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





People stand on designated areas to maintain social distancing as they queue outside a medical store during the first day of a 21-day government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Allahabad on March 25, 2020. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





Stranded passengers wait for transportation at the general bus stand during a lockdown in Jammu, India, 25 March 2020. Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi declared a 21-day lockdown across India, which started on 24 March, in a bid to slow down the spread of the ongoing pandemic of the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. According to health authorities, India has 519 confirmed cases of COVID-19. (Photo by Jaipal Singh/EPA/EFE)





An Indian man carries a cooking gas cylinder through a deserted road during a lockdown in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, March 25, 202. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





People line up in circles drawn with chalk to maintain safe distance as they wait to enter a supermarket during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Mumbai, India, March 25, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Police officers wield their batons against a man as a punishment for breaking the lockdown rules after India ordered a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spread of coronavirus in New Delhi, India, March 25, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Members of traffic police fold their hands as they request the commuter to wear masks and to stay at home during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Vijayawada in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India, March 27, 2020. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/Reuters)





Migrant workers carry their belongings as they walk along a road to return to their villages, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, March 26, 2020. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





A migrant worker carries her belongings as she walks along a road to return to her village, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, March 26, 2020. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





A migrant worker eats food offered by the local residents on a highway as he and others are returning to their villages, after India ordered a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi, March 26, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)