In Pictures: India ramps up precautionary measures to combat COVID-19

India has now taken the fourth spot in the list of nations worst hit by COVID-19

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The National capital is in the third in position after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Mumbai Police personnel patrolling on Hoverboards at Marine Drive in Mumbai on Sunday.
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Volunteers carry out thermal tests of residents at Dharavi during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Mumbai.
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A quarantine center with 300 beds set up for treating COVID-19 patients during the ongoing nationwide lockdown, at Nagpada area in Mumbai.
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Medical staff with local residents at a coronavirus clinic in Mumbai.
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People relax at a park near India Gate on a pleasant evening, during the ongoing nationwide lockdown, in New Delhi.
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A waiter serves food to customers while wearing a facemask and face shield, after the government eased a lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Ahmedabad. Malls and temples re-opened in several cities across India on June 8 despite the country recording a record daily number of new coronavirus infections, with the pandemic expected to ravage the country for weeks to come.
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A firefighter (C) sprays disinfectant as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in a containment zone in Chennai .
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Chennai: A vendor sells foot-operated hand sanitizer machine on a roadside during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Chennai.
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Indians board a city bus in Ahmedabad. India's coronavirus cases are spiking amid government reopening restaurants, shopping malls and religious places in most of its states after a more than 2-month-old lockdown.
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A medic collects a sample of a woman for COVID-19 testing, during the ongoing nationwide lockdown, in New Delhi.
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A view of the traffic jam at Delhi-Noida border, in New Delhi.
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A man belonging to Christian community offers prayers from his car during 'Prayers on Wheels', a Sunday holy communion held at the premises of AG Bethel Church, as a preventive measure against the spread of COVID-19 in Bangalore.
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