Police officers try to stop opposition demonstrators as they rally to pressure Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign over a peace deal with neighboring Azerbaijan in Yerevan, Armenia, Tuesday, December 22, 2020. Opposition supporters in Armenia on Tuesday ramped up the pressure on the prime minister to resign over his handling of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan. (Photo by Hrant Khachatryan/PAN Photo via AP Photo)





Israeli borders stand before Palestinians trying to plant olive saplings on Palestinian land near an Israeli settlement outpost during a demonstration against the occupation, west of Salfit in the centre of the occupied West Bank on December 22, 2020. (Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP Photo)





Israeli police shoot a water cannon towards ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocking the road during a demonstration in Jerusalem, Tuesday, December 22, 2020. (Photo by Mahmoud Illean/AP Photo)





Indian municipal workers in personal protective equipment (PPE) guide passengers arriving from United Kingdom, at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, December 22, 2020. Dozens of countries around the world slapped tough travel restrictions on the U.K. because of a new and seemingly more contagious strain of the coronavirus in England. From Canada to India, one nation after another banned flights from Britain. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Relatives touch each other's hand through a plastic film screen and a glass to avoid contracting COVID-19 at the San Raffaele center in Rome, Tuesday, December 22, 2020. Italians are easing into a holiday season full of restrictions, and already are barred from traveling to other regions except for valid reasons like work or health. Starting Christmas eve, travel beyond city or town borders also will be blocked, with some allowance for very limited personal visits in the same region. (Photo by Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP Photo)





A medical technician collects a nasal swabs sample to test for COVID-19 at a mobile testing site in Tunis, Tunisia, Tuesday December 22, 2020. The World Health Organisation has cautioned against major alarm over a new, highly infectious variant of the coronavirus that has emerged in Britain, saying this was a normal part of a pandemic's evolution. (Photo by Hassene Dridi/AP Photo)





An employee of the Corona Test Center at the night club “Kitkat Club” looks out of the tent with a Santa hat while a Corona rapid test is taken in the background in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, December 22, 2020. (Photo by Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP Photo)





Police patrol along the M20 motorway where freight traffic is halted whilst the Port of Dover remains closed, in Ashford, Kent, England, Tuesday, December 22, 2020. Trucks waiting to get out of Britain backed up for miles and people were left stranded at airports as dozens of countries around the world slapped tough travel restrictions on the U.K. because of a new and seemingly more contagious strain of the coronavirus in England. (Photo by Andrew Matthews/PA Wire via AP Photo)





A man gestures as lorry drivers demand the reopening of the Port of Dover on December 22, 2020 in Dover, United Kingdom. Over 1500 lorries remained stacked up around Kent as drivers waited for a resumption of travel from the port of Dover to France. On Sunday, France abruptly halted freight and passenger travel from the UK over concerns about the UK's surging covid-19 cases and a new variant of the virus. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)





An aerial view shows lines of freight lorries and heavy goods vehicles parked on the tarmac at Manston Airport near Ramsgate, south east England on December 22, 2020, as the Brexit contingency plan “Operation Fennel” was activated early to cope with lorries waiting to depart the UK, after France closed its borders to accompanied freight arriving from the UK due to the rapid spread of a new coronavirus strain. The British government said Tuesday it was considering tests for truckers as part of talks with French authorities to allow the resumption of freight traffic suspended due to a new more infectious coronavirus strain. (Photo by William Edwards/AFP Photo)





Clothes and towels hang to dry on a lorry at Ashford International Truck Stop, as EU countries impose a travel ban from the UK following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Ashford, Britain on December 22, 2020. (Photo by Simon Dawson/Reuters)





Drivers and passengers of vehicles trying to access the port in Dover, south east England on December 22, 2020, argue with police officers after France closed its borders to accompanied freight arriving from the UK due to the rapid spread of a new coronavirus strain. The British government said Tuesday it was considering tests for truckers as part of talks with French authorities to allow the resumption of freight traffic suspended due to a new coronavirus strain. Britain was plunged into fresh crisis last week with the emergence of a fresh strain of the virus, which is believed to be up to 70 percent more transmissible than other forms. (Photo by Justin Tallis/AFP Photo)





People queue outside the Waitrose and Partners supermarket, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, Balham, London, Britain on December 22, 2020. (Photo by Hannah McKay/Reuters)





Visitors look at a playground, which is taped off for the social distancing measures and a precaution against the coronavirus at a park in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, December 23, 2020. South Korea has added more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases in a resurgence that is erasing hard-won epidemiological gains and eroding public confidence in the government’s ability to handle the outbreak. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)





A Buddhist monk wearing a face covering to help prevent the spread of coronavirus waits for a bus along Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok on Wednesday, December 23, 2020. Thailand has kept the coronavirus largely in check for most of the year but is facing a challenge from a large outbreak of the virus among migrant workers in a province close to the Thai capital. (Photo by Adam Schreck/AP Photo)





A woman wears a face mask as she walks past a Christmas tree in New Bond Street, in London, Tuesday, December 22, 2020. Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson cancelled Christmas for almost 18 million people across London and eastern and south-east England, following warnings from scientists of the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus. (Photo by Alberto Pezzali/AP Photo)





Women wearing masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus pose for a photo with Santa in Bali, Indonesia on Tuesday, December 22, 2020. Indonesia has reported more than 600,000 cases of the coronavirus. (Photo by Firdia Lisnawati/AP Photo)





Police control together with the public order office as there are hardly any people on the shopping street “Marktstrasse” in the city centre of Oberhausen, Germany, Tuesday, December 22, 2020. In Oberhausen, tightened curfew restrictions apply from Tuesday, Dec. 22, due to the coronavirus. (Photo by Fabian Strauch/dpa via AP Photo)





Lottery sellers of the store “Dona Manolita” celebrate winning numbers in Spain's Christmas lottery “El Gordo” (The Fat One), amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Madrid, Spain on December 22, 2020. (Photo by Susana Vera/Reuters)





Issa Kassissieh wears a Santa Claus costume as he rides a camel after handing out Christmas trees to people during the annual distribution of the trees organized by the Jerusalem municipality in Jerusalem's Old City on December 22, 2020. (Photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters)





A Lebanese man dressed with a Santa Claus outfit rides on a standup paddle in Lebanon's northern coastal city of Batroun on December 22, 2020. (Photo by Ibrahim Chalhoub/AFP Photo)