India Continues Its COVID-19 Battle

IMAGE: Security personnel stand guard outside the Red Fort, which is closed because of COVID-19.
Photograph: Atul Yadav/PTI Photo

IMAGE: A board outside the Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan hospital in New Delhi shows the number of ICU beds available.
Photograph: Atul Yadav/PTI Photo

IMAGE: A teacher conducts online classes in Lucknow. Classes 1-9 at schools in most states are shut because of the rising number of COVID-19 cases.
Photograph: Nand Kumar/PTI Photo

IMAGE: The Second Hooghly Bridge in Kolkata deserted owing to restrictions imposed by the West Bengal government to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: A health worker administers the COVID-19 vaccine to a student at a school in Prayagraj.
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IMAGE: A doctor, left, and a health worker check documents of a patient arriving at the COVID-19 care centre at the Commonwealth Games village in New Delhi.
Photograph: Kamal Kishore/PTI Photo

IMAGE: A health worker checks the temperature of a patient at the COVID-19 care centre at the CWG village in New Delhi.
Photograph: Kamal Kishore/PTI Photo

IMAGE: Workers place oxygen cylinders at the COVID-19 care centre at the CWG village in New Delhi as part of the preparations for the third wave.
Photograph: Kamal Kishore/PTI Photo

IMAGE: A policeman helps a sadhu wear a face mask at a transit camp in Kolkata for pilgrims to the Gangasagar Mela 2022.
Photograph: Swapan Mahapatra/PTI Photo

IMAGE: A policeman sanitises the Krishna Rajendra Market police station in Bengaluru after 15 police officers of the station tested positive.
Photograph: PTI Photo