Members of the Saaberie Chishty Burial Society prepare the grave for the burial of a person who died from COVID-19 at the Avalon Cemetery in Lenasia, Johannesburg Saturday December 26, 2020. South Africa’s health minister has announced an “alarming rate of spread” in the country, with more than 14,000 new confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 400 deaths reported Wednesday. It was the largest single-day increase in cases. (Photo by Shiraaz Mohamed/AP Photo)





Doctor Giovanni Di Perri receives a box with the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at Amedeo di Savoia hospital in Turin, Italy, December 27, 2020. (Photo by Massimo Pinca/Reuters)





“Hevra Kadisha” workers prepare a body body at a special morgue for COVID 19 before a funeral procession in the city of Holon on December 27, 2020 in Holon, Israel. The country's third national lockdown starts today and will last at least two weeks, depending on the rate of new covid-19 infections. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)





A nurse prepares to administer of Pfizer BioNtech against the COVID-19, at a care home in Nicosia, Cyprus, on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. Cyprus started today the vaccination program against COVID-19. (Katia Christodoulou/Pool Photo via AP)





A vendor of a roadside eatery stall cleans a bench for customers in front of a mural representing a frontline warrior of the Covid-19 coronavirus, painted on a wall in New Delhi on December 27, 2020. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)





Bulgarian Health Minister Kostadin Angelov watches an Orthodox priest receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at Saint Anna hospital in Sofia, Bulgaria, December 27, 2020. (Photo by Stoyan Nenov/Reuters)





Slawomir Butkiewicz, left, the paramedic of the Interior Ministry hospital in Warsaw, the capital's main COVID-19 hospital, is getting the coronavirus vaccination in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday December 27, 2020. Wierzba was the second person to be vaccinated in Poland as part of a European Union rollout on Sunday. (Photo by Czarek Sokolowski/AP Photo)





Mauricette, a French 78-year-old woman, talks with medical staff after she received a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Rene-Muret hospital in Sevran, on the outskirts of Paris, on December 27, 2020. Mauricette was the first person who received a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in France against Covid-19, as countries of the European Union began a vaccine rollout. (Photo by Thomas Samson/AFP Photo)





A medical worker wearing protective gears takes sample at a coronavirus testing site in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, December 28, 2020. South Korea has confirmed its first cases of a more contagious variant of COVID-19 that was first identified in the United Kingdom. (Photo by Park Ju-sung/Newsis via AP Photo)





Mihaela Anghel, left, a Romanian nurse, gets the first COVID-19 vaccine administered in the country in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, December 27, 2020. Anghel is the nurse who registered and processed Romania's first official COVID-19 patient, on Feb. 27 2020. (Photo by Andreea Alexandru/AP Photo)





Health workers watch as the vaccine against the Coronavirus arrives at a nursing home in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday, December 27, 2020. The first shipments of coronavirus vaccines developed by BioNTech and Pfizer have arrived across the European Union, authorities started to vaccinate the most vulnerable people in a coordinated effort on Sunday. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)





The German Armed Forces vaccination team prepares for vaccination at the Agaplesion Bethanien Sophienhaus nursing home in Berlin on December 27, 2020. On Sunday, the Corona vaccinations with the Covid-19 vaccine from Biontech/Pfizer started in Germany. (Photo by Kay Nietfeld/dpa Pool/dpa)





Motorcycle riders wearing Santa Claus costumes are seen on their motorbikes as they distribute new year gifts to children in Novi Sad, Serbia on December 27, 2020. (Photo by Aleksandar Jovanovic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A member of the ice swimming club, wearing christmas face mask and hat, prepares to go swimming into the icy water as the temperature dropped down to minus 34 degrees celsius, in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, on December 26, 2020. (Photo by Rostislav Netisov/AFP Photo)