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A man argues with a policewoman as he waits with others to receive COVID-19 vaccine outside a vaccination centre in Mumbai, India, Thursday, April 29, 2021. India set another global record in new virus cases Thursday, as millions of people in one state cast votes despite rising infections and the country geared up to open its vaccination rollout to all adults amid snags. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

U.S. to restrict travel from India starting May 4

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, pallets of oxygen tanks sit in the 60th Aerial Port Squadron warehouse on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. The United States is donating medical supplies to assist the country of India in its fight against COVID-19. The donation of 440 oxygen cylinders and regulators, one million N95 masks and one million COVID-19 rapid diagnostic kits, will be transported to India aboard a U.S. Air Force C-5M Super Galaxy. (Alexander Merchak/U.S. Air Force via AP)

U.S. military planes with COVID-19 aid reach India: White House

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A U.S. Navy's P-8 Poseidon is parked on the tarmac at Ngurah Rai International Airport as seen from the window of Indonesian Navy's maritime patrol aircraft of 800 Air Squadron of the 2nd Air Wing of Naval Aviation Center (PUSPENERBAL), in Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, April 24, 2021. The American reconnaissance plane was expected to join the search for Indonesian navy submarine KRI Nanggala that went missing after its last reported dive Wednesday off the resort island. (AP Photo/Eric Ireng)

U.S. approves $2.4 billion sale of maritime patrol jets to India

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A relative of a person who died of COVID-19 mourns at a crematorium in Jammu, in Jammu, India, Friday, April 30, 2021. Indian scientists appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to publicly release virus data that would allow them to save lives as coronavirus cases climbed again Friday, prompting the army to open its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a massive humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Hospital fire kills 18 coronavirus patients as India steps up jabs

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

A man argues with a policewoman as he waits with others to receive COVID-19 vaccine outside a vaccination centre in Mumbai, India, Thursday, April 29, 2021. India set another global record in new virus cases Thursday, as millions of people in one state cast votes despite rising infections and the country geared up to open its vaccination rollout to all adults amid snags. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

India cases up as scientists appeal to Modi to release data

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

Health workers install oxygen cylinders for COVID-19 patients at a makeshift hospital in New Delhi, India, Friday, April 30, 2021. Indian scientists appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to publicly release virus data that would allow them to save lives as coronavirus cases climbed again Friday, prompting the army to open its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a massive humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo)

China’s Xi offers more help to India in message to Modi

Associated Press

Ankur Chandra, 38, talks about his father's experience with COVID-19, during an interview Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in New York. The New York-based consultant's father is now recovering from COVID-19, alone in an apartment in India’s national capital region of Gurugram. (AP Photo/David Martin)

As virus engulfs India, diaspora watches with despair

By MALLIKA SEN - Associated Press

A Kashmiri man receives the COVISHIELD vaccine for COVID-19 at a primary health center in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. India, a country of nearly 1.4 billion people, Wednesday became the fourth nation to cross 200,000 deaths. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

India cases set new global record; millions vote in 1 state

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Alarm grows in Africa as it watches India’s COVID-19 crisis

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

A water drops from a tap at a private warehouse of wheat and rice in Makhu, in the Indian state of Punjab, Friday, March 12, 2021. India's water crisis looms over the agrarian crisis that has been brewing for decades. And at its heart is a policy conundrum: India has been subsidizing the cultivation of rice in northern India, but these are thirsty crops that have depleted the ground water. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s deepening water crisis at the heart of farm protests

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

FILE- In this April 8, 2021 file photo, people wait in queues outside the office of the Chemists Association to demand necessary supply of the anti-viral drug Remdesivir, in Pune, India. As India faces a devastating surge of new coronavirus infections overwhelming the health care system, people are turning to desperate measures to keep loved ones alive. (AP Photo, File)

Indians turn to black market, unproven drugs as virus surges

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and NEHA MEHROTRA - Associated Press

Health workers bring a patient to be admitted at a government COVID-19 hospital in Ahmedabad, India, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Coronavirus cases in India are surging faster than anywhere else in the world. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

India tops 200,000 dead as virus surge breaks health system

By Sheikh Saaliq - Associated Press

In this June 23, 2009, photo, a Sichuan Airlines Airbus A320 passenger jet arrives at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan Province. A Chinese airline that Indian news reports say was carrying medical supplies to India says it has suspended cargo flights due to concern about its upsurge in coronavirus infections. Sichuan Airlines said in a statement Wednesday, April 28, 2021, that flights were temporarily suspended due to &quot;recent sudden changes in India's coronavirus epidemic situation.&quot; (Chinatopix via AP)

The Latest: Philippines extends virus lockdown to mid-May

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Hospital staff distribute food packets to the staff of ambulances carrying COVID-19 patients and their relatives as they queue up waiting for their turn to be attended at a government COVID-19 hospital in Ahmedabad, India, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. The COVID-19 death toll in India has topped 200,000 as the country endures its darkest chapter of the pandemic yet. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

India grieves 200,000 dead with many more probably uncounted

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

Prince Charles charity joins efforts to send aid to India

By SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

People wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus walk under a banner emphasizing an enhanced social distancing campaign in front of Seoul City Hall in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. The banner reads: &quot;We have to stop before COVID-19 stops everything.&quot; (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Asia Today: India records 320K cases as foreign help arrives

Associated Press

An exhausted municipal worker rests after bringing the body of a person who died of COVID-19 for burial in Gauhati, India, Sunday, April 25, 2021. As India suffers a bigger, more infectious second wave with a caseload of more than 300,000 new cases a day, the country’s healthcare workers are bearing the brunt of the disaster. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

‘Cannon fodder’: Medical students in India feel betrayed

By NEHA MEHROTRA and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

Health workers stand on the back of ambulance as they transport patients at the Jumbo COVID-19 field hospital in Mumbai, India, Monday, April 26, 2021. As India suffers a bigger, more infectious second wave with a caseload of more than 300,000 new cases a day, the country’s healthcare workers are bearing the brunt of the disaster. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

China says India welcome at anti-virus video meeting

Associated Press

People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk on a street in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Japan declared a state of emergency from Sunday to curb a rapid coronavirus resurgence, the third since the pandemic began. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

The Latest: S Korea to send medical items to help India

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Villagers in Pakistani Kashmir hail cease-fire with India

By SALOHI - Associated Press