India's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has urged the government to extend the country's nationwide lockdown to May 31 in efforts to further curb the spread of COVID-19.

The NDMA, responsible for setting policy on the lockdown, made its call in a letter to India's interior ministry, which was expected to issue detailed guidelines later on Sunday.

India has recorded more than 91,000 COVID-19 infections, with a death toll exceeding 2,800, according to the U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University.

The country's current lockdown, imposed on March 25 and extended several times, is due to expire at midnight on Sunday.

Like many other countries, the COVID-19 restrictions in India impacted citizens negatively, with job losses reported and some businesses forced to shut down.

Some regions of India have reported protests as some people push the government to reopen the country to allow them return to their home villages.

In Rajkot in the western state of Gujarat, more than 1,500 migrant workers blocked roads, damaged more than a dozen vehicles and threw stones at police on Sunday, after two special trains that were supposed to take them home got cancelled.

On Saturday, at least 23 migrants were killed trying to reach their homes when a truck crashed in northern India.