People wearing face masks stand near an effigy based on coronavirus at Nandan during the third day of Kolkata International Film Festival, in Kolkata
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'Coronasur', a coronavirus theme based effigy made by the residents of Girgaon, in Mumbai. Residents will burn the effigy today at night to welcome New Year 2021.
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A woman wears a face mask on her chin and walks past a cake depicting the coronavirus on display at the annual cake show organized as part of new year celebrations in Bengaluru.
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An effigy of the year 2020 depicting 'coronasur' at Worli in Mumbai. The residents will burn the effigy on the night of December 31, to welcome the New Yead 2021.
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A woman wears coronavirus theme-based earings, in Kolkata.
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A health worker conducts COVID-19 testing near Delhi–Noida Direct (DND) flyover in Noida. The Uttar Pradesh government started testing travelers from Delhi for coronavirus from t...
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Light rail vehicles of Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe are parked at sunrise at the Duehren depot in Hannover. In the public service wage conflict, the work stoppages are to be signi...
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A man rides a scooter covered with coronavirus-themed images during bi-weekly lockdown to curb COVID-19 spread, in Kolkata.
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A man wearing a mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walks past a public art sculpture depicting giant spores in Beijing.
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Researchers catch bat in front of cave inside Sai Yok National Park in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok, Thailand. Researchers in Thailand have been trekking though the count...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah enters Medanta Hospital to be admitted after testing postive for COVID-19, in Gurugram.
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Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan speaks during the release of a compendium 'CSIR Technologies for Covid-19 Mitigation', in New Delhi.
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Health workers wearing PPE hold samples for COVID-19 rapid antigen testing, at Tezpur in Sonitpur district.
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Barricades set up outside a locality, identified as a COVID-19 containment zone, during Unlock 2.0, in Kolkata.
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Parents wait to give swab samples of their children for COVID-19 test, in New Delhi.
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A medical officer uses a rapid kit to test for the coronavirus at Government Fever Hospital in Hyderabad.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs a meeting to review the preparations on COVID-19 pandemic, in New Delhi.
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A woman crosses a barricade outside a sealed residential area after the state government imposed the total lockdown in all containment zones following a surge in COVID 19 cases, in...
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Police put barricades in a COVID-19 containment zone in Krishna Nagar, Nadia.
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West Indies captain Jason Holder during a nets session at the Ageas Bowl, Southampton, England, Monday, July 6, 2020.
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