Villagers participate in a religious procession during the traditional Gohain Uliuwa Mela in Mayong village, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of Gauhati, India, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. The festival marks the Assamese New Year. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A metro train runs behind as a man wearing mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks through a bridge in Kochi, Kerala state, India, Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Photo by R.S. Iyer/AP Photo)





A health worker takes rest at a test center in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 20 April 2021. The Covid-19 cases continue to witness surge in Kashmir over the past three weeks. India on Monday recorded a massive surge of 273,810 fresh COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day spike in COVID-19 infections. India is seeing a second wave of the virus which has led several states including Maharashtra and the capital, New Delhi and Madhya Pradesh to impose curfew and new restrictions. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA/EFE)





Relatives of COVID-19 patients wait for refill of their oxygen cylinders in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. India reported a global record of more than 314,000 new infections Thursday as a grim coronavirus surge in the world's second-most populous country sends more and more sick people into a fragile health care system critically short of hospital beds and oxygen. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





An exhausted health worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) rests at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 21, 2021. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Relatives wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) attend the funeral of a man, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 21, 2021. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Health workers and relatives wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry the body of a man, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a crematorium in New Delhi, India on April 21, 2021. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Relatives wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) mourn a man, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), next to his funeral pyre at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 21, 2021. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Relatives wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) mourn a man, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during his funeral at a crematorium in New Delhi, India on April 21, 2021. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Relatives wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) mourn a man, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during his funeral at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 21, 2021. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Health workers prepare to take out bodies of six victims of COVID-19 from an ambulance for cremation in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 19, 2021. India has been overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of new coronavirus cases daily, bringing pain, fear and agony to many lives as lockdowns have been placed in Delhi and other cities around the country. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Empty tankers are loaded on a train wagon at the Kalamboli goods yard in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra state, India, before they are transported to collect liquid medical oxygen from other states, Monday, April 19, 2021. The western Maharashtra state, which is worst hit by the coronavirus is facing a shortage of the gas used for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. India is being overrun by hundreds of thousands of new coronavirus cases, bringing a new reality for daily life in its main cities and towns. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Migrant workers cross a pedestrian bridge leading to a bus station as they walk to board buses for their respective villages following a lockdown for six days in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





A notice informing about the shortage of COVID-19 vaccine is displayed on the gate of a vaccination centre in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Multiple funeral pyres of those patients who died of COVID-19 disease are seen burning at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for mass cremation of coronavirus victims, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A family waits to receive the body of a person who died due to COVID-19 outside a mortuary, in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 19, 2021. India's health system is collapsing under the worst surge in coronavirus infections that it has seen so far. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





People wearing masks as a precaution against the coronavirus work at a fish market in Kochi, Kerala state, India, Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Photo by R.S. Iyer/AP Photo)





A Muslim devotee walks inside the Jamia Masjid mosque during the holy month of Ramadan in Srinagar on April 20, 2021. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)





A health worker distributes food packets inside a quarantine center for COVID-19 patients, in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 19, 2021. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





A man wearing PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) performs the last rites to his relative who died of the Covid-19 coronavirus disease at a crematorium on April 20, 2021 in New Delhi, India. Covid-19 cases are spiralling out of control in India, with daily infections approaching 300,000, according to health ministry data, bringing the nationwide tally of infections to almost 14 million. The latest wave has already overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Getty Images)