A beautician wearing protective gear tends to a customer inside a parlor at Gulmohar Park shopping mall, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Ahmedabad, India, September 23, 2020. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





People stroll along the promenade at Marine Drive, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Mumbai, India, September 22, 2020. (Photo by Niharika Kulkarni/Reuters)





A Kashmiri farmer takes a break during harvesting of paddy crops on the outskirts of Srinagar on September 22, 2020. (Photo by Sanna Irshad Mattoo/Reuters)





Kids' drawings are displayed on a panel inside a quarantine centre for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients amidst the spread of the disease at an indoor sports complex in New Delhi, India, September 22, 2020. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





A medical worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) plays with a child of woman recovering inside a quarantine centre for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients amidst the spread of the disease at an indoor sports complex in New Delhi, India, September 22, 2020. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





Women wearing protective face masks exercise at an open-air gym in a municipal park amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Kolkata, India, September 21, 2020. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A teacher helps a student to wash hands before attending a class after authorities ordered schools to reopen voluntarily for classes 9 to 12, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Guwahati in Assam, India, September 21, 2020. (Photo by David Talukdar/Reuters)





A farmer holds a spear as farmers block a national highway during a protest against farm bills passed by India's parliament, in Shambhu in Punjab, India, September 25, 2020. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A farmer rests as police officers stand guard during a protest against farm bills passed by India's parliament, at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, in New Delhi, India, September 25, 2020. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





A civic staff in protective suit arrives to disinfect an apartment where one of the residents tested positive for COVID-19 in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, September 22, 2020. The nation of 1.3 billion people is expected to become the coronavirus pandemic's worst-hit country within weeks, surpassing the United States. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





Migrant laborers from other states looking for work gather on a street on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Sunday, September 27, 2020. The nation of 1.3 billion people is expected to become the coronavirus pandemic's worst-hit country within weeks, surpassing the United States. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Exile Tibetan Buddhist monks wear masks as protection against the coronavirus as they circumambulate the residence of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Dharmsala, India, Sunday, September 27, 2020. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo)





Daily wage laborers and fruit vendors wear face masks as a precaution against coronavirus at a wholesale market in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, September 24, 2020. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





A flower vendor wearing face mask as a precaution against coronavirus interacts with a prospective buyer at a wholesale market in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, September 24, 2020. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





Sikh pilgrims arrive to take part in a religious ritual on the occasion of the 481th death anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of Sikhism, at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur near the India-Pakistan border on September 22, 2020. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP Photo)





A paramilitary soldier wearing a mask stands guard as the Taj Mahal monument is reopened after being closed for more than six months due to the coronavirus pandemic in Agra, India, Monday, September 21, 2020. (Photo by Pawan Sharma/AP Photo)





A vendor stands in a flooded flower market following heavy monsoon rains in Mumbai on September 23, 2020. (Photo by Sujit Jaiswal/AFP Photo)