Indian shops for lanterns at a roadside stall ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in Mumbai, India, Saturday, November 7, 2020. Diwali will be celebrated on Nov. 14. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





A shopkeeper wears a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus waits for customers at a market in Bengaluru, India, Friday, November 20, 2020. India's total number of coronavirus cases since the pandemic began has crossed 9 million. Nevertheless the country's new daily cases have seen a steady decline for weeks now and the total number of cases represents 0.6% of India's 1.3 billion population. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





In this June 20, 2014, file photo, migrant workers separate freshly caught fish by size at a fish market in Samut Sakhon Province, west of Bangkok. Thailand reported more than 500 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, the highest daily tally in a country that had largely brought the pandemic under control. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo/File)





A local woman shops for fish at Central Market in freezing conditions of minus 43 degrees Celsius in the city of Yakutsk, Sakha (Yakutia) on December 13, 2020. Located in Russia's Far East, Yakutia is known for its severe climate. (Photo by Yevgeny Sofroneyev/TASS)





People crowd at a Juhu beach in Mumbai, India, Saturday, December 26, 2020. India's confirmed coronavirus cases have crossed 10 million with new infections dipping to their lowest levels in three months, as the country prepares for a massive COVID-19 vaccination in the new year. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Vendors are selling eggs in an open market on December 2, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. As there have been no recorded cases of community transmissions since May, life for residents is gradually returning to normal. (Photo by Getty Images)





Vendors and shoppers mingle in a commercial district of central Mexico City, Saturday, December 5, 2020. With hospitals once again filling up with COVID-19 patients, Mexico City's mayor on Friday urged people to stay at home as much as possible and authorized checkpoints to limit the number of people entering the capital's colonial-era downtown at one time. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo)





People wearing face mask as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus buy vegetables inside a narrow alley in Kolkata, India, Sunday, November 22, 2020. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





An Ethnic Armenian man chooses meat at the market in Stepanakert, the capital of the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, on Saturday, November 21, 2020. Ethnic Armenians return to a normal life after a Russia-brokered cease-fire was signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





A woman sells her goods at a local market in Abobo neighborhood, suburbs of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday, November 1, 2020. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





A woman separates bananas to sale at a local market in Abobo neighborhood, in the suburbs of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday, November 1, 2020. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





A resident wears a face mask and a shield as she walks at a wet market at Jordan residential area, in Hong Kong, China on January 22, 2021. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





Women selling traditional clothing from the Andes wait for buyers outside of closed market amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Chincheros, Peru, Monday, October 26, 2020. Cuzco, the historic capital of the Inca empire near Machu Picchu lives almost entirely from international tourism and is suffering the worst crisis in its recent history. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)





A vendor wearing a face mask against the spread of coronavirus, throws and catches an egg in the air at an open-air fruit and vegetable market in Athens, Monday, November 23, 2020. Greece has seen a major resurgence of the virus after the summer, leading to dozens of deaths each day and thousands of new infections. (Photo by Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo)





People buy vegetables, at a market in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday December 24, 2020. Africa’s top public health official says another new variant of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, but further investigation is needed. The discovery could add to new alarm in the pandemic after similar variants were announced in recent days in Britain and South Africa and sparked the swift return of travel restrictions. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)