In pictures | Coping with coronavirus lockdown: Day 17

A devotee offers prayers from outside a church in Egmore, Chennai, on the occasion of Good Friday. Churches and all religious places have been closed for public due to the lockdown. (Source: K.V. Srinivasan)

A devotee offers prayers from outside a church in Egmore, Chennai, on the occasion of Good Friday. (Source: K.V. Srinivasan)

People wearing masks stop by at bus stops to buy vegetables in Bhubaneswar. The government has opened vegatable and other essential goods shops in bus stops across the city. (Source: Biswaranjan Rout)

Members of an NGO serving meals to people near Guntur General Hospital in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. (Source: T. VIJAYA KUMAR)

Health volunteers sanitising their hands before starting the day’s work in Red Zone areas of Akkayyapalem and New Colony in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. (Source: K.R. DEEPAK)

Police in Bhubaneswar putting a mask on a shopper who came out from his house without wearing one. (Source: Biswaranjan Rout)

An array of face masks on display at a market in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh. (Source: S. RAMBABU)

The first COVID-19 survivor of Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu, leaving Tiruchi Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital. (Source: M. Moorthy)

It is business as usual for this water bubbles vendor in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, but with the protection of a makeshift mask. (Source: M. VEDHAN)

Adivasi women carrying ration walk past the Martyrs Column at Indervelli in Adilabad district, Telangana. (Source: S. HARPAL SINGH)

Corporation workers spraying disinfectant at an apartment complex in Anna Nagar West, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. (Source: K. Pichumani)

A pastor conducting a prayer session, which was live streamed to devotees, on the occasion of Good Friday at CSI All Souls Church in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. (Source: M. Periasamy)

Chandigarh police check ID cards of motorists in the city amid the ongoing lockdown. (Source: Vikas Vasudeva)

The lockdown hasn’thampered paddy cultivation in Puducherry, as labourers are seen engaged in transplanting of paddy near the suburban region of Villianur. (Source: T. Singaravelou)

People buying vegetables at Keshopur wholesale vegetable market in West Delhi in apparent disregard to social distancing norms. (Source: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR)

Farmers in Vijayapura district of Karnataka drying grapes into raisins to prevent decay of their crop during the lockdown period. (Source: Rajendra Singh Hajeri)