People wearing fancy costumes walk near a skating rink past signs requesting to use protective face masks and to keep a social distance amid the coronavirus disease (COVID 19) outbreak, as heavy fog covers a square named after Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in Stavropol, Russia on December 1, 2020. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)
Fallen leaves cover the undergrowth as a commuter on a bicycle makes her way through the Tiergarten park in central Berlin on December 7, 2020. (Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP Photo)
A ballet dancer poses in a giant plastic bubble as she entertains Christmas shoppers in Melbourne on December 13, 2020. (Photo by William West/AFP Photo)
A woman sells props outside a church on as members of India's Christian community celebrate Christmas eve in Mumbai, India, December 24, 2020. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)
Afghan vendors sort out oranges for sale at a wholesale market in the Bati kot district in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, 04 December 2020. The orange fruit floods markets across Afghanistan due to bumper crop in the winter season. Oranges are rich in vitamin C, which may reduce severity of the common cold. (Photo by Ghulamullah Habibi/EPA/EFE)
A man stacks more bricks on his head while working at in brickfields Narayanganj near Dhaka, Bangladesh on January 02, 2021. (Photo by Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
A server carries mugs during a barrel tapping at a beer garden near Theresienwiese where Oktoberfest would have started today as COVID-19 continues in Munich, Germany, September 19, 2020. (Photo by Andreas Gebert/Reuters)