A portrait of former President Abraham Lincoln President hangs in the State Dining Room of the White House as Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy Friday, January 22, 2021, in Washington. (Photo by Evan Vucci/AP Photo)





A police officer stands guard at the Yau Ma Tei area, in Hong Kong, Saturday, January 23, 2021. Thousands of Hong Kong residents were locked down Saturday in an unprecedented move to contain a worsening outbreak in the city, authorities said. (Photo by Vincent Yu/AP Photo)





Government investigators wearing protective suits gather in the Yau Ma Tei area in Hong Kong, Saturday, January 23, 2021. Hong Kong has been grappling to contain a fresh wave of the coronavirus since November. Over 4,300 cases have been recorded in the last two months, making up nearly 40% of the city’s total. (Photo by Vincent Yu/AP Photo)





A man is detained after confronting a police officer as he wants to enter the closed area in Jordan area of Hong Kong, Saturday, January 23, 2021. Authorities said in a statement Saturday that an area comprising 16 buildings in Yau Tsim Mong district will be locked down until all residents have been tested. Residents will not be allowed to leave their homes until they have received their test results to prevent cross-infection. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)





Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a coronavirus press conference at 10 Downing Street in London, Friday January 22, 2021. Johnson announced that the new variant of COVID-19, which was first discovered in the south of England, may be linked with an increase in the mortality rate. (Photo by Leon Neal/Pool via AP Photo)





Brand-new ultralow-temperature freezers are seen at a warehouse at Kanou Reiki, a freezer supplier, Friday, January 22, 2021 in Sagamihara, west of Tokyo. Some of COVID-19 vaccine must be kept at the ultra-cold temperature of around -70 degrees Celsius (-94 degrees Fahrenheit). Japan is accelerating preparations for COVID-19 vaccinations in hopes of starting them in late February, but uncertainty is growing as the country faces vaccine-shy public, slow approval process and bureaucratic roadblocks, casting a doubt if Tokyo Olympic this summer is possible. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





A morgue attendant at the Johannesburg branch of the South African funeral and burial services company Avbob keeps the curtain open from inside a refrigerated container where bodies of patients deceased with COVID-19 related illnesses are kept isolated ahead of their burials on January 22, 2021. (Photo by Marco Longari/AFP Photo)





Funeral home workers carry the coffin of Pedro Miguel Infante Vilchez, 80, who died from COVID-19, to the “Martires 19 de Julio” cemetery in Comas, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, January 21, 2021. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





People line up to get their nucleic acid test following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Beijing, China on January 22, 2021. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)





Healthcare workers protest against plans by Madrid's authorities to force staff to transfer to other hospitals at La Paz hospital in Madrid, Spain, Friday, January 22, 2021. Virus infections have been increasing steeply following Christmas and New Year, putting pressure on Spain's public health system. (Photo by Manu Fernandez/AP Photo)





Bottles of hand sanitizer are displayed for use at a park in Goyang, South Korea, Friday, January 22, 2021. South Korea is reporting its smallest daily increase in coronavirus infections in two months as officials express cautious hope that the country is beginning to wiggle out from its worst wave of the pandemic. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Residents wear masks as they dance at a park in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province on Saturday, January 23, 2021. A year after it was locked down to contain the spread of coronavirus, the central Chinese city of Wuhan has largely returned to normal, even as China continues to battle outbreaks elsewhere in the country. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of coronavirus, feeds pigeons at a park in Athens, Friday, January 22, 2021. Greece's government has extended nationwide lockdown measures indefinitely as a nightly curfew, domestic travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders will all remain in effect after being first imposed in early November. (Photo by Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo)





A patron, who did not want to give her name, shows the ticket she had just purchased for the Mega Millions lottery drawing at the lottery ticket vending kiosk in a Smoker Friendly store, Friday, January 22, 2021, in Cranberry Township, Pa. The jackpot for the Mega Millions lottery game has grown to $1 billion ahead of Friday night's drawing after more than four months without a winner. (Photo by Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)





Swimmers make their way into the sea at Boscombe beach in Boscombe, United Kingdom on January 22, 2021 before sunrise. Temperatures could drop as low as –10°C (14°F) in the coming days, as Storm Christoph gives way to colder winter weather this weekend. (Photo by Andrew Matthews/PA Images via Getty Images)