From Curfew To Vaccination Drive: One Year Of The COVID Pandemic, In Photos

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to India on January 30, 2020, from China. The first case of COVID-19 was in Kerala in India.

India observed a 14-hour lockdown to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

From clapping to beating pots from balconies, then to lighting lamps Prime Minister Narendra Modi was doing all he could to defeat the faceless enemy who had invaded the house.

Prime Minister Modi announced a 21-day lockdown throughout India, starting midnight of March 25 until April 14, to prevent the spread of COVID-19. However, it ended up being much longer.

On June 25, Indian Railways suspended all passenger train services (except Rajdhani and Migrant Special Trains) till August 12, 2020.

A Kashmiri woman wearing a protective mask watches through a window of her house as a policeman makes markings for people to maintain social distance at a market in Srinagar, Kashmir.

Balconies are illuminated with candles and torches to mark the country's fight against COVID-19 in Greater Noida, a suburb of New Delhi, India, April 5, 2020. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had urged the country's 1.3 billion people to switch off lights of their home at 9 pm for nine minutes on Sunday night and light candles, lamps and even use mobile torches standing in their balconies.

A doctor checks the temperature of a girl in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, during lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Mumbai.

A civic employee puts a stamp on the hand, top right, of a photojournalist for a two-week quarantine at home after his COVID-19 test report came back negative, at a hotel in Mumbai.

A health worker tends to her colleague who fainted due to exhaustion at a COVID-19 testing camp in New Delhi.