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An Indian migrant worker carries a child on his shoulders as they wait for transportation to their village following a lockdown amid concern over spread of coronavirus in New Delhi, India, Saturday, March 28, 2020. Authorities sent a fleet of buses to the outskirts of India's capital on Saturday to meet an exodus of migrant workers desperately trying to reach their home villages during the world's largest coronavirus lockdown. Thousands of people, mostly young male day laborers but also families, fled their New Delhi homes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown that began on Wednesday and effectively put millions of Indians who live off daily earnings out of work. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Modi apologizes to Indians for 21-day lockdown hardships

By EMILY SCHMALL and AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Migrant daily wage laborers make the journey to their respective villages on foot following a lockdown amid concern over spread of coronavirus in New Delhi, India, Friday, March 27, 2020. Some of India's legions of poor and others suddenly thrown out of work by a nationwide stay-at-home order began receiving aid on Thursday, as both public and private groups worked to blunt the impact of efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic. The measures that went into effect Wednesday, the largest of their kind in the world, risk heaping further hardship on the quarter of the population who live below the poverty line and the 1.8 million who are homeless. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Indian authorities send buses to take unemployed to villages

By MANISH SWARUP and BISWAJEET BANERJEE - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 24, 2020 photo, an Indian girl wearing a face mask as a precaution from coronavirus watches a video on the WhatsApp app in New Delhi, India. With the pandemic starting to gain a foothold in the region, social media are rife with bogus remedies, tales of magic cures and potentially hazardous medical advice. Experts are urging caution and say the “coronavirus infodemic” could have disastrous consequences. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Rumors hampering fight against coronavirus in South Asia

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by Scott Knuteson shows Whitney and Mike Saville with their new daughter, Grace in New Delhi,India. Mike and Whitney Saville, of Auburn, Georgia, traveled to India to adopt a child is looking for help to get back home after Indian authorities locked down the country because of the coronavirus. (Scott Knuteson via AP)

US couple, adopted daughter, caught in India virus lockdown

By CODY JACKSON - Associated Press

Homeless and impoverished Indians receive food at a government shelter in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 26, 2020. Some of India's legions of poor and people suddenly thrown out of work by a nationwide stay-at-home order began receiving aid distribution Thursday, as both the public and private sector work to blunt the impact of efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo)

Jobless after virus lockdown, India’s poor struggle to eat

By EMILY SCHMALL and SHEIKH SAALIQ Emily Schmall and Sheikh Saaliq - Associated Press

In this Monday, March 23, 2020, photo, a passenger walks past railway tracks at the deserted New Delhi Railway station during a lockdown amid concerns over the spread of Coronavirus, in New Delhi, India, Monday. India's colossal passenger railway system has come to a halt as officials take emergency measures to keep the coronavirus pandemic from spreading in the country of 1.3 billion. The railway system is often described as India's lifeline, transporting 23 million people across the vast subcontinent each day, some 8.4 billion passengers each year. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

AP Photos: India’s vast railway system closes to passengers

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This combination photo made of two images shows a crowd on a normal day at Church Gate railway station on Feb. 11, 2013, left, and the same station seen deserted on Sunday, March 22, 2020 in Mumbai, India. As India expanded its virus-containment measures and halted its train network, the country's lifeblood, the federal government warned Monday, March 23, 2020, of strict legal action for those who flout the rules. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Cricket captain, Bollywood star send virus message to India

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Indians stand in marked positions to buy essential commodities from a grocery store in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, March 25, 2020.The world's largest democracy went under the world's biggest lockdown Wednesday, with India's 1.3 billion people ordered to stay home in a bid to stop the coronavirus pandemic from spreading and overwhelming its fragile health care system as it has done elsewhere. For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Police struggle to enforce India’s sweeping virus lockdown

By ASHOK SHARMA and SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 17, 2020 photo, a slum dweller fills water from a tap next to a drain filled with plastic and other filth in New Delhi, India. Experts say keeping hands clean is one of the easiest and best ways to prevent transmission of the coronavirus, in addition to social distancing. But for India’s homeless and urban poor who live in thousands of slums across major cities and towns, maintaining good hygiene can be nearly impossible. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Lack of clean water for India’s poor spawns virus concerns

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

A private security guard walks past the gate of Safdarjung's Tomb, a sandstone and marble mausoleum built in 1754, closed as a precaution against the spreading of new coronavirus in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some, it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s restrictive criteria for virus testing may mask toll

By EMILY SCHMALL and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

Pakistan government spokesperson Firdous Ashiq Awan consults with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, March 16, 2020. Khan said Monday he fears the new coronavirus will devastate developing nations' economies, and warned richer economies to prepare to write off the debts of the world's poorer countries. In an interview with The Associated Press he also called for an end to sanctions on Iran saying they were crippling the poor nation's ability to even contain the spread of the coronavirus. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistan PM warns new virus may devastate developing nations

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE- In this March 2, 2020 file photo, India's opposition Congress party workers burn an effigy of Indian Home Minister Amit Shah as they protest against the previous week's deadly communal riots in New Delhi, India. India’s powerful lower house of Parliament on Wednesday debated the worst Hindu-Muslim violence in decades in the Indian capital, with an angry opposition demanding a judicial probe and the resignation of the home minister for the police's failure to prevent the deaths of more than 50 people. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Opposition blames gov’t for New Delhi rioting that killed 52

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020 photo, an Indian woman holds a candle and placard during a protest against the sedition case filed by police against a school after a play preformed by students denouncing a new citizenship law, in Bangalore, India. Critics, intellectuals, human rights activists, filmmakers, students and journalists in seen as opposed to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government are being increasingly silenced under a colonial-era sedition law. Official data reveal as many as 332 people were arrested under the law between 2016 and 2018, though only seven were convicted, suggesting that the police have struggled to gather evidence against the accused. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Critics of India’s Modi government face sedition charges

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Indian nursing students wearing masks walk in a group at government run Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad, India, Friday, March 6, 2020. For weeks India watched as COVID-19 spread in neighboring China and other countries as its own caseload remained static. But with the virus now spreading communally in the country of 1.4 billion and 31 confirmed cases, authorities are scrambling to ready a beleaguered and vastly unequal medical system for a potential surge of patients. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

India’s beleaguered health system braces for virus surge

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Depositors stand in queue for withdrawals outside Yes bank in Mumbai, India, Friday, March 6, 2020. India’s finance minister on Friday assured panicky depositors that their money is safe as the central bank put cash-strapped private &quot;Yes Bank” under a moratorium and took over its board while working on a rescue plan. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Indian depositors scramble for money from stressed bank

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Congress party workers shout slogans and burn an effigy of Indian Home Minister Amit Shah as they protest against last week's deadly communal riots in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s riot toll rises to 46 as capital remains on edge

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Bangladeshis protest against the communal violence in New Delhi, after Friday prayers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Authorities have not said what sparked the riots, the worst communal violence in New Delhi in decades, as the the toll continued to rise. The protestors also raised slogans against the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is scheduled to visit Bangladesh in mid-March. Poster reads &quot;Your religion allows the destruction of mosques, my religion prohibits destroying temples.&quot; (AP Photo/Al-emrun Garjon)

Thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims protest India violence

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Muslims offer prayers on the roof of a fire-bombed mosque in New Delhi, India, Friday, April 28, 2020. Muslims returned to the battle-torn streets of northeastern New Delhi for weekly prayers at heavily-policed fire-bombed mosques on Friday, two days after a 72-hour clash between Hindus and Muslims that left at least 38 dead and hundreds injured. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Prayers at fire-bombed mosques as India’s riot toll grows

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

EMS crew issued $108K fine for using unlicensed ambulance

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A view of burnt buildings and vandalized street in Tuesday's violence in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. More than 20 people were killed in three days of clashes in New Delhi, with the death toll expected to rise as hospitals were overflowed with dozens of injured people, authorities said Wednesday. The clashes between Hindu mobs and Muslims protesting a contentious new citizenship law that fast-tracks naturalization for foreign-born religious minorities of all major faiths in South Asia except Islam escalated Tuesday. (AP Photo)

Scars of violence haunt India’s capital after deadly riots

By EMILY SCHMALL and SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press