Newly arranged beds lie inside a COVID-19 treatment center set up for emergencies in the wake of spike in the numbers of positive coronavirus cases in Mumbai, India, Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





Supporters of Trinamool Congress party chief Mamata Banerjee holding an earlier photograph of her celebrate early lead for the party in the West Bengal state elections in Kolkata, India, Sunday, May 2, 2021. (Photo by Ashim Paul/AP Photo)





A flower vendor makes garlands by a roadside in Jammu, India, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





A health worker checks oxygen cylinders stored next to a train prepared as COVID-19 care centre in the wake of spike in the number of positive coronavirus cases, at a railway station in Gauhati, India, Thursday, May 6, 2021. Infections in India hit another grim daily record on Thursday as demand for medical oxygen jumped seven-fold and the government denied reports that it was slow in distributing life-saving supplies from abroad. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A man transports a car on a horse cart to a repair shop along a street in Amritsar on May 6, 2021. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





A health worker takes a nasal swab sample of a policeman to test for COVID-19 in Prayagraj, India, Saturday, May 8, 2021. Two southern states in India became the latest to declare lockdowns, as coronavirus cases surge at breakneck speed across the country and pressure mounts on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to implement a nationwide shutdown. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





An Indian man wearing face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus waits to enter a goverment Hospital in Jammu, India, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Urns containing ashes after final rites of people including those who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) await immersion due to lockdown, at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, May 6, 2021. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





A security guard closes the gate of Arun Jaitley Stadium, one of the six venues of Indian Premier League 2021, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. The Indian Premier League was suspended indefinitely on Tuesday after players or staff at three clubs tested positive for COVID-19 as nationwide infections surged. (Photo by Ishant Chauhan/AP Photo)





A labour offer prayer on the last Friday of Ramzan month at a vermicelli factory in Prayagraj on Friday, May 07, 2021. (Photo by Prabhat Kumar Verma/ZUMA Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A woman pulls away her crying relative as she reacts to the burning funeral pyre of their family member who died of COVID-19, at an open crematorium set up at a granite quarry on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





A man runs to escape heat emitting from the multiple funeral pyres of COVID-19 victims at a crematorium in the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Thursday, April 29, 2021. (Photo by Amit Sharma/AP Photo)





Crew members of the Antonov An-124 Ruslan plane prepare to unload Linde tankers after they arrived from abroad to help with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (NSCBIA) in Kolkata, India, May 2, 2021. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





People wearing face masks a precaution against the coronavirus leave the city to travel to their native places ahead of Eid al-Fitr in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 7, 2021. India's surge in coronavirus cases is having a dangerous effect on neighboring Bangladesh. Health experts warn of imminent vaccine shortages just as the country should be stepping up its vaccination drive, and as more contagious virus variants are beginning to be detected. (Photo by Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo)





A health worker takes a nasal swab sample of a woman to test for COVID-19 in Hyderabad, India, Friday, May 7, 2021. With coronavirus cases surging to record levels, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing growing pressure to impose a harsh nationwide lockdown amid a debate whether restrictions imposed by individual states are enough. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Volunteers stand next to burning pyres of persons who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a crematorium ground in Giddenahalli village on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India, May 2, 2021. (Photo by Samuel Rajkumar/Reuters)





Relatives cremate the bodies of persons who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a crematorium ground in Giddenahalli village on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India, May 2, 2021. (Photo by Samuel Rajkumar/Reuters)





The body of a person, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), lies on a funeral pyre during a mass cremation, at a crematorium in New Delhi, India May 1, 2021. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





People suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are treated inside an overcrowded casualty ward at a hospital in New Delhi, India, May 1, 2021. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)