Indian homeless people stand in queue to receive free food distributed by the Sikh community near a railway station in Gauhati, India, Sunday, September 6, 2020. India's coronavirus cases have crossed 4 million, leading the world in new infections and deepening misery in the country's vast hinterlands where surges have crippled the underfunded health care system. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A health worker takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 in New Delhi, India, Saturday, September 5, 2020. India's coronavirus cases have crossed 4 million, leading the world in new infections and deepening misery in the country's vast hinterlands where surges have crippled the underfunded health care system. Initially, the virus ravaged India's sprawling and densely populated cities. It has since stretched to almost every state, spreading through villages. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





A man sprays disinfectant to sanitize figures in a public park after authorities announced re-opening public parks and gardens that were closed to slow the spread of the coronavirus in Ahmedabad, India, September 2, 2020. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Delhi Metro trains are seen parked at a depot ahead of the restart of their operation in New Delhi, India, September 1, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A man with a covered face prays to an idol of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, before it is immersed in a pond during the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, in Mumbai, India, September 1, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Health worker Kamal Kumari and her assistant walk as they deliver pulse oximeters to people infected with the coronavirus in New Delhi, India, August 26, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A relative prays next to a coffin containing the body of India's former president Pranab Mukherjee, who died on Monday after a lung infection, at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, September 1, 2020. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





An Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel stands guard at a checkpoint along a highway leading to Ladakh, at Gagangeer in Kashmir's Ganderbal district on September 2, 2020. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A boy jumps into a pond as the temperature rises in Mumbai, India, September 5, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A woman reacts as a health worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) takes a swab during a check up campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in a slum area in Mumbai, India September 5, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A medical worker takes an elevator to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), of the Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi, India, September 5, 2020. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





Security guards wearing face masks and shields stand on a Delhi metro train platform, on the first day of the restart of their operations, amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, September 7, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A fisherwoman wearing a protective mask is seen at a fish market amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India, September 7, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A woman walks past a sign put up outside a shop at a market, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India September 6, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





People are seen on Juhu beach, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India, September 6, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A health worker looks out from behind the plastic sheet covered window from where he conducts tests for COVID-19 in New Delhi, India, Saturday, September 5, 2020. India's coronavirus cases have crossed 4 million, leading the world in new infections and deepening misery in the country's vast hinterlands where surges have crippled the underfunded health care system. Initially, the virus ravaged India's sprawling and densely populated cities. It has since stretched to almost every state, spreading through villages. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





A health worker takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19, as a policeman stands guard in New Delhi, India, Saturday, September 5, 2020. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





A vendor adjusts her scarf as she sells Winnie the Pooh cartoon-shaped balloons on a highway during the weekend lockdown in Amritsar, India, 30 August 2020. Another lockdown was imposed by the state government to control the spread of novel coronavirus which causes the Covid19 disease. (Photo by Raminder Pal Singh/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)