Trucks pull up to loading bays at Pfizer Manufacturing in Puurs, Belgium on Monday, December 21, 2020. The European Medicines Agency is meeting Monday to consider approving a coronavirus vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer that would be the first to be authorized for use in the European Union. The closed-doors meeting comes weeks after the shot was granted permission under emergency provisions by regulators in Britain and the United States. (Photo by Valentin Bianchi/AP Photo)





Flights from Britain are announced cancelled at Cointrin airport, the day the Swiss government imposed a 10 days quarantine for travellers who have entered from Britain in Geneva, Switzerland, December 21, 2020. (Photo by Denis Balibouse/Reuters)





General view of a closed road and the logo of the Port of Dover at the port as EU countries impose a travel ban from the UK, in Dover, Britain, December 21, 2020. (Photo by Matthew Childs/Reuters)





Police and port security staff stop cars and lorries at the entrance to the closed ferry terminal in Dover, England, Monday, December 21, 2020, after the Port of Dover was closed and access to the Eurotunnel terminal suspended following the French government's announcement. France banned all travel from the UK for 48 hours from midnight Sunday, including trucks carrying freight through the tunnel under the English Channel or from the port of Dover on England's south coast. (Photo by Sean Smith/The Guardian)





A drive sits in the cab of his lorry while parked on the M20 in Kent on December 2, 2020 after the Port of Dover was closed after the French government's announcement it will not accept any passengers arriving from the UK. France appears set to end a ban on hauliers crossing the Channel which was imposed due to fears about the spread of the new coronavirus strain. (Photo by Steve Parsons/PA Images via Getty Images)





Vegetables racks are empty at a Sainsbury's store, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in London, Britain on December 21, 2020. (Photo by Hannah McKay/Reuters)





Police at the entrance of the Eurostar terminal at Kings Cross St.Pancras train station in London, Britain, 21 December 2020. France has become the latest country to ban air and rail travel from the UK following news of the new variant Covid-19 that has spread rapidly across London and south-east England. Most of the countries in the EU have suspended flights to and from the UK in the light of this mutated coronavirus strain. (Photo by Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA/EFE)





A man walks past closed shops on Regent Street, in London on Monday December 21, 2020. Millions of people in England have learned they must cancel their Christmas get-togethers and holiday shopping trips. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Saturday that holiday gatherings can’t go ahead and non-essential shops must close in London and much of southern England. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire via AP Photo)





A man dressed as Santa Claus waves to patient Emma from a cherry picker outside Leeds Children's Hospital in Leeds, England, Monday December 21, 2020. “Operation Airborne Santa” transported Santa using the cherry picker to all four floors of the hospital to talk to patients from a safe distance, after visits to the wards were stopped to prevent the spread of the coronavirus among patients, their families and hospital staff. (Danny Lawson/PA Wire via AP Photo)





Participants take part in a ceremony at the closed Stonehenge on December 21, 2020 in Amesbury, United Kingdom. English Heritage, which manages the site, said “Owing to the pandemic, and in the interests of public health, there will be no Winter Solstice gathering at Stonehenge this year. We look forward to welcoming people back for solstice next year”. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)





A visitor wearing a protective mask as a preventive measure against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) takes photos while viewing the Poinsettia Wishes floral display, as part of the Christmas celebrations at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, December 20, 2020. (Photo by Loriene Perera/Reuters)





Men dressed as angels walk across the medieval Charles Bridge amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Prague, Czech Republic, December 20, 2020. (Photo by David W. Cerny/Reuters)





A worker roasts a row of pigs on bamboo poles at a roasting pit, in Manila, Philippines, December 21, 2020. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)