Visuals from Day 30 of India’s lockdown

A month into the nationwide lockdown enforced to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, the total number of COVID-19 cases in India have risen to 21,700, including 16,689 active cases, 4,325 recoveries and 686 deaths. In pic: Barasat Hospital's healthcare workers walk back to their homes in Kolkata. (Express photo: Shashi Ghosh)

Despite the high number of cases added in the last few days, the spread of the disease has slowed down considerably as a result of the lockdown. In pic: A man selling masks in Kolkata's Barasat area. (Express photo: Shashi Ghosh)

A community kitchen started by Trinamool Youth Congress in Barasat's Kalikapur area. Image used for representation(Express photo: Shashi Ghosh)

While Maharashtra, which has been worst-hit by the pandemic, has received a lot of attention for its rapidly rising number of infections, Gujarat has also added numbers at a faster rate to become the second state to report maximum cases. In pic: Deserted Hongkong lane, a famous shopping area for youngsters, during the lockdown owing to COVID-19 outbreak. (Express photo by Arul Horizon)

The positive cases in the Gujarat has more than tripled, from 766 on April 15 to 2,407 on Wednesday, April 22. (Express photo: Arul Horizon)

A worker taking nap at Naveen Galla Mandi in Lucknow. (Express photo by Vishal Srivastav)

Vadodara's 45 patients who recovered from Covid-19 get a farewell at Ajwa ITI institute. (Express photo By Bhupendra Rana)

Due to Covid-19, the government has decided to freeze the dearness allowance to central government employees and dearness relief to pensioners at current rates till July 2021. In pic: Labourers pack peas at subzi Mandi in Shimla during nationwide lockdown imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday. (Express photo by Pradeep Kumar)

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar urged Railway Minister Piyush Goyal to run special long-distance trains from Mumbai and Pune after the lockdown ends on May 3 to ferry migrants workers stuck in Maharashtra to their native states. In pic: Pot sellers waiting for customers, but due to lockdown, they are not able to sell even a single pot in a day. (Express photo by Vishal Srivastav)