Free Party presidential candidate Xiomara Castro acknowledges her supporters after general elections, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Sunday, November 28, 2021. Castro claimed victory, setting up a showdown with the National Party which said its candidate had won a vote that could end the conservative party's 12 years in power. (Photo by Moises Castillo/AP Photo)





Police detain a supporter of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who was convicted in absentia of abuse of power during his presidency and arrested upon his return from exile, at a court building during a court hearing in Tbilisi, Georgia, Monday, November 29, 2021. Saakashvili, who was president from 2008-13, left Georgia after the end of his second term and was later convicted in absentia of abuse of power. He was arrested on Oct. 1 after returning to Georgia to try to bolster opposition forces in the run-up to nationwide municipal elections. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A woman wearing a Guy Fawkes mask participates in a peaceful protest against the government's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) protocols through downtown Fort de France after the unrest triggered by these curbs, which have already rocked the nearby island of Guadeloupe, in Fort-De-France, Martinique on November 28, 2021. (Photo by Ricardo Arduengo/Reuters)





A man receives a dose of a vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccine centre, in Soweto, Monday, November 29, 2021. The World Health Organization has urged countries not to impose flight bans on southern African nations due to concerns over the new omicron variant. (Photo by Denis Farrell/AP Photo)





Students from Norway who were on a field trip to South Africa wait to be tested for COVID-19 before boarding a flight to Amsterdam at Johannesburg's OR Tambo's airport Monday November 29, 2021. The World Health Organisation urged countries around the world not to impose flight bans on southern African nations due to concern over the new omicron variant. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A woman hold her arm after receiving Covishield COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Mumbai, India, Monday, November 29, 2021. The emergence of the new omicron variant and the world’s desperate and likely futile attempts to keep it at bay are reminders of what scientists have warned for months: The coronavirus will thrive as long as vast parts of the world lack vaccines. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Police officers check the vaccination certificates of guests in a restaurant in Hannover, Germany, Monday, November 29, 2021. On behalf of the local authorities, the police are starting to patrol restaurants and other catering establishments in order to check the measures to battle the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Ole Spata/dpa via AP Photo)





Customers have lunch in a restaurant in Hong Kong, Monday, November 29, 2021. The new omicron variant was found in Hong Kong, Belgium and Tel Aviv. The European Union, the United States and Britain imposed curbs on travel from Africa. Israel banned entry by foreigners. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)





A man moves around offering fumigation services in a poor neighborhood to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Harare, Zimbabwe, Monday, November 29, 2021. The emergence of the new omicron variant and the world’s desperate and likely futile attempts to keep it at bay are reminders of what scientists have warned for months: The coronavirus will thrive as long as vast parts of the world lack vaccines. (Photo by Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo)





The capital's shopping streets are near-empty after 5 pm in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, November 29, 2021, after a tougher COVID-19 related lockdown came into effect starting Sunday, moving closing time forward of three hours from 8 pm amid swiftly rising infections and ICU admissions. (Photo by Peter Dejong/AP Photo)





A staff member draws up a syringe with the Pfizer vaccine at the launch of COVID-19 booster vaccinations campaign at the police vaccination centre in Mainz, Germany, Monday, November 29, 2021. (Photo by Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa via AP Photo)





A man wears a Union flag face mask to curb the spread of coronavirus as he walks past stalls in a Christmas market, in Trafalgar Square, London, Monday, November 29, 2021. Countries around the world slammed their doors shut again to try to keep the new omicron variant at bay Monday, even as more cases of the mutant coronavirus emerged and scientists raced to figure out just how dangerous it might be. In Britain, mask-wearing in shops and on public transport will be required, starting Tuesday. (Photo by Matt Dunham/AP Photo)





People wearing face masks walk near portrait drawings amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Milan, Italy, November 28, 2021. (Photo by Flavio Lo Scalzo/Reuters)





Students wearing face masks to protect from COVID-19 are escorted by a teacher as they leave school after classes in Beijing, Monday, November 29, 2021. Despite the global worry, scientists caution that it's still unclear whether the omicron COVID-19 variant is more dangerous than other versions of the virus that has killed more than 5 million people. Some countries are continuing with previous plans to loosen restrictions, with signs of reopening in Malaysia, Singapore and New Zealand. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





People pass through Waterloo train station, in London, during the morning rush hour, Monday, November 29, 2021. The new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries on Saturday, just days after being identified in South Africa, leaving governments around the world scrambling to stop the spread. In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said mask-wearing in shops and on public transport will be required, starting Tuesday. (Photo by Matt Dunham/AP Photo)





A health worker shows an empty syringe after inoculating a woman with AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine during the first day of a nationwide three-day vaccination drive at a school in Quezon city, Philippines on Monday, November 29, 2021. There has been no reported infection so far caused by the new variant in the Philippines, a Southeast Asian pandemic hotspot where COVID-19 cases have considerably dropped to below 1,000 each day in recent days, but the emergence of the Omicron variant has set off a new alarm. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Visitors walk through the Christmas market at Alter Markt, Cologne, Germany, Monday, November 29, 2021. Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold talks Tuesday with the governors of Germany's 16 states amid growing concern about the steep rise in new coronavirus cases in the country. (Photo by Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa via AP Photo)





An illegal miner throws water at one of the more than 60 dredging barges that were set on fire by officers of the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, IBAMA, during an operation to try to contain illegal gold mining on the Madeira river, a tributary of the Amazon river in Borba, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sunday, November 28, 2021. Hundreds of barges belonging to illegal miners had converged on the river during a gold rush in the Brazilian Amazon prompting IBAMA authorities to start burning them. (Photo by Edmar Barros/AP Photo)





A truck gets swallowed up by rising floodwaters from the United States as waters cross the border into Abbotsford, British Columbia, Monday, November 29, 2021. (Photo by Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP Photo)





People run under a heavy rain during a stormy day in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, November 29, 2021. A powerful storm pounded Istanbul and other parts of Turkey on Monday, killing at least four people and causing havoc in the city of 15 million people, reports said. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)