In Pictures: India goes all out to battle COVID-19

Indian laborers carry wooden frames to make beds to prepare a quarantine center at the Sarusojai sports complex in Gauhati, India.

A technician prepares a drone to spray disinfectant at the compound of a municipal office during a government-imposed lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Chennai.

People look at a drone spraying disinfectant at the compound of a municipal office during a government-imposed lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Chennai.

Passengers stand in a queue maintaining physical distance as they wait for transport being arranged by the government during lockdown in Jammu.

People maintain safe distance as they queue to buy vegetables at a stadium turned into a makeshift market during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Vijayawada in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

People queue standing in circles drawn to maintain safe distance as they wait to buy grocery items during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kolkata.

People look on as they stand in circles drawn to maintain safe distance while waiting to buy medicine during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kolkata.

Indian municipal workers spray disinfectants as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus on a street in Gauhati.

A private security guard uses an infrared thermometer to measure the temperature of people standing in circles drawn with chalk to maintain safe distance as they wait to enter a supermarket during the coronavirus disease outbreak in New Delhi.

Police officers in protective suits arrive in a residential area to check on people under home quarantine, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ahmedabad.

Daily wage workers and homeless people eat food inside a government-run night shelter in the old quarters of Delhi.

Laboratory technicians sit next to boxes containing coronavirus disease testing kits at a sample collection centre in Ahmedabad.

Children carry their sick dog on a makeshift stretcher and walk home after visiting the vet, during lockdown in Kohima, northeastern Nagaland state.