Please click on the images for glimpses of India in the grip of the pandemic.
IMAGE: A COVID-19 infected patient at a Covid care centre at the Commonwealth Games village in New Delhi.
Photograph: Kamal Singh/PTI Photo
IMAGE: A health worker interacts with a patient at the Covid centre at the CWG village.
Photograph: Kamal Singh/PTI Photo
IMAGE: Healthcare workers check on a infected patient at the Covid centre at the CWG Village.
Photograph: ANI Photo
IMAGE: Infected patients, including children and adults, being treated at the Covid centre at the CWG Village.
Photograph: ANI Photo
IMAGE: A student reacts while receiving a dose of Covaxin at the Kamrup Academy Higher Secondary School in Guwahati.
Photograph: ANI Photo
IMAGE: School girls sit in an observation area after getting a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a government school in Kolkata.
Photograph: ANI Photo
IMAGE: People flout COVID-19 appropriate behaviour as they throng Sadar Bazar in New Delhi.
Photograph: Mohd Zakir/ANI Photo
IMAGE: A school student flashes the victory sign after being vaccinated at the Marwari Girls Government School in Ranchi.
Photograph: ANI Photo
IMAGE: A teacher takes an online class at the Gundavli municipal school, Andheri, north west Mumbai. Classes 1 to 9 have been shut after COVID-19 cases rose in the city.
Photograph: ANI Photo
IMAGE: A teacher takes online class for students at a school at Dharavi, north central Mumbai.
Photograph: Kunal Patil/PTI Photo
Photographs curated by Manisha Kotian/Rediff.com
Feature Presentation: Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com
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