Photos: India eases lockdown; Covid-19 infections at 106,750

India reported the biggest single-day jump in the number of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) patients on Wednesday, May 20, with 5,611 new cases in the last 24 hours taking the country’s tally to 106,750, Union health ministry said. Beyond those numbers is the lived experience of Indians across the country either hunkered, cautiously stepping out or migrant workers striving to reach the safety of home.

Updated on: May 20, 2020 11:56 AM IST

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A boy seen reaching out to his father upon arrival in a special evacuation flight from Bangladesh to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata on May 18. The number of known coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in India crossed 106,750 on May 20, two-and-a-half months after the outbreak began taking hold in the country. (Samir Jana / HT Photo)

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A venue for conventions and trade fairs in one of Mumbai’s suburbs, NESCO exhibition centre is geared to house 1,240 beds, some of which will have oxygen facilities. With 37,136 Covid-19 active cases, Maharashtra continues to lead the state tally. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)

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Hairdressers at work in a salon while clad in personal protective equipment (PPE) coveralls in Gurugram. (Yogendra Kumar / HT Photo)

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A team of NDMC workers chemically disinfect closed shops in Kashmere Gate, New Delhi on May 18. Until May 20, 10,554 people were infected in Delhi and out of these 4,750 have recovered from the infection. (Amal KS / HT Photo)

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Migrant workers seen in Ghazipur while on their way to their homes in other states on May 17. Hit-and-runs, collisions and even a train speeding down the tracks have killed scores of migrants since the lockdown began on March 25. (Arvind Yadav / HT Photo)

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Migrants rush to fill Uttar Pradesh state government buses ferrying them home, while flouting social distancing at Charbagh Railway Station in Lucknow on May 18. (Deepak Gupta / HT Photo)

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Stranded migrant workers make their way through Sector 63 in Noida, while on a journey back home to another state on May 18. The mass exodus has also seen a spike in cases at the in the arrival states. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) says that 1,08,121 samples have been tested for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in India. (Virendra Singh Gosain / HT Photo)

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Migrant women, desperate to go back home to their states staged a protest against the Punjab government on May 18 at Court Road in Amritsar for not being able to register for the Shramik Special trains running to ferry the workers home across India. Since May 1, the railways has run 1,565 trains to send migrants stranded to their native states, carrying over 20 lakh migrants. (Sameer Sehgal / HT Photo)

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A police personnel undergoes thermal screening at the entry gate of Bihar Military Police (BMP) campus, after it was designated as a containment zone in Bihar on May 17. The number of active cases in the state stands at 916. (Santosh Kumar / HT Photo)

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Even in the pandemic, weddings took place in India, though on a smaller scale and with social distancing measures. A hearing and speech impaired couple tied the knot in Pune onMay 17, in the presence of police personnel from the Bebwewadi police station in Pune. Social activists were present to oversee the rituals. (Rahul Raut / HT Photo)

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Migrant workers wait for buses to take them to the nearest railway station in Chandigarh on May 18. Over 2.8 lakh migrant workers have returned to their homes from Punjab so far. (Keshav Singh / HT Photo)

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Heartbreaking scenes such as this, where migrant workers are seen headed to their homes, queuing up behind a truck already bursting at its seams, have become common on a daily basis across India’s national highways. This image was made on National Highway NH 30 in Patna on May 18. (Parwaz Khan / HT Photo)

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A team of New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) workers disinfect a marketplace in Kashmere Gate on May 18. Delhi Government opened up the city’s markets on May 19 after nearly two months of a sweeping lockdown. (Amal KS / HT Photo)

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People with luggage wait to board a train to Delhi from the railway station in Jammu on May 18. (Nitin Kanotra / HT Photo)