A prong extending from a remote-controlled robot prototype approaches the mouth of a volunteer to extract a throat swab sample, as part of a self-funded project to assist physicians in running tests on suspected COVID-19 coronavirus patients in a bid to limit human exposure to disease-carriers, at a private hospital in Egypt's Nile delta city of Tanta, on March 20, 2021. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)

Dancers wearing masks and kimonos perform in the streets at the “Super Yosakoi 2015” dance festival in Tokyo on August 30, 2015. One hundred dance teams with some 5,500 people participated in the two-day summer festival event. (Photo by Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP Photo)

Passengers brave the strong winds as they wait for a bus, in Hong Kong, Monday, September 15, 2014. The Hong Kong Observatory issued the number 8 southeast storm signal, as Typhoon Kalmaegi edges closer to Hong Kong. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)

A boy sleds through snow as he enjoys the snow in Bahcesaray district called as planet nine because of roads blocked by snow in winter, in Van province of Turkey on January 22, 2020. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Carolaine Reis and her son Miguel Alves, residents of the Aglomerado da Serra favela, wear a protective mask against the spread of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) made by the seamstresses of the Remexe Favelinha studio, in the Aglomerado da Serra favela, on April 13, 2020 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Facial masks follow the protocol and guidelines defined by the Ministry of Health. Around 6,000 masks have already been produced. The masks are being distributed to a part of the population and sold throughout the country, in the amount of 5 reais per unit. (Photo by Pedro Vilela/Getty Images)

Nepalese army personnel pay tributes before the body of a person who died of COVID-19 before cremating the same in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, August 17, 2020. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)

Catholic pilgrim Matilde Madalena de Jesus crawls on a rocky trail carrying a bottle of water on her head during the annual pilgrimage of the dead (Romaria dos Finados), in the city of Juazeiro do Norte, Ceara state, in Brazil October 31, 2016. (Photo by Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)

A participant at London Pride 2022 parade takes a mocking selfie next to Christian extremists protesting the parade in Piccadilly on July 2, 2022. (Photo by Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)