Mumbai Fire brigade personnel disinfecting a traffic police chowki and the surrounding area of Sion Hospital on April 1, 2020. PIC/ SURESH KARKERA

A BMC healthcare worker wearing a PPE kit takes a nasal swab sample of a man in the BMC M East Ward office in Govandi, Mumbai on December 3, 2020. PIC/ATUL KAMBLE

A woman takes a closer look at fish in a market in Borivli, Mumbai on February 12, 2021. PIC/ ANURAG AHIRE

Migrants walk along the Eastern Express Highway in Sion, Mumbai on May 13, 2020. PIC/ASHISH RAJE

More than 2,000 migrant labourers crowd up at Bandra Railway Station demanding that they be allowed to go back to their native places on April 14, 2020. PIC/PRADEEP DHIVAR

A woman police constable is seen carrying a trunk on her head, while her colleague holds her baton and her hat at Police Academic Ground in Ghatkopar East, Mumbai on October 14, 2020. PIC/SAYYED SAMEER ABEDI

BMC converted NESCO Exhibition Centre into a quarantine facility during the third nation-wide lockdown in Goregaon, Mumbai on May 17, 2020. PIC/SATEJ SHINDE

During the Janta Curfew announced by PM Narendra Modi on March 22, 2020, Mumbai-Nashik Highway bore a deserted look. PIC/SAMEER MARKANDE

Sonu Sood arrives to see off migrants, who were going back to their hometowns in UP and Bihar. The Bollywood actor had arranged for buses for the migrants to travel at Wadala TT Police Station in Mumbai on May 23, 2020. PIC/SHADAB KHAN

Deepika Padukone with her husband Ranveer Singh at the Kalina Airport Gate No 8 in Mumbai. The Bollywood couple returned from Goa after Deepika was summoned by NCB on September 24, 2020. PIC/RANE ASHISH

A daughter and her father were seen wearing their masks as they celebrated Gudi Padwa at their residence in Girgaon, Mumbai on March 25, 2020. PIC/BIPIN KOKATE

A boy practising cricket in the hallway of his residential building in Borivli, Mumbai on April 26, 2020. PIC/NIMESH DAVE