Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, greets Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, left, during a welcome ceremony prior to their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, December 17, 2020. Al-Kadhimi is in Turkey on an official visit. (Photo by Presidential Press Service via AP Photo, Pool)





French President Emmanuel Macron is seen on a screen as he attends by video conference a round table for the National Humanitarian Conference (NHC), taken at the Foreign Ministry in Paris,Thursday, December 17, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday following a week in which he met with numerous European leaders. The French and Spanish prime ministers and EU Council president were among many top officials self-isolating because they had recent contact with him. (Photo by Charles Platiau/Pool via AP Photo)





Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, greets former Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, in front of the Russian embassy in Zagreb, Croatia, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Lavrov is on a one-day visit to Croatia. (Photo by Darko Bandic/AP Photo)





Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks via video call during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, December 17, 2020. This year, Putin attended his annual news conference online due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Protesters hold placards during an opposition rally marking Independence Day in Almaty, Kazakhstan December 16, 2020. Upper placards refer to the upcoming parliamentary election and read: “You are thieves. 2021” and “Life is taken away on December 16, my vote on January 10”. (Photo by Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)





People protest against a law to legalize euthanasia in front of the Spanish Parliament in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, December 17, 2020. The Spanish Parliament debates on votes on a bill to legalize euthanasia for those people suffering “unbearably” from a chronic or incurable disease. (Photo by Manu Fernandez/AP Photo)





An anti-Brexit demonstrator holds an EU flag in Parliament Square, in London, Wednesday, December 16, 2020. Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday she saw clear progress in the trade talks with the UK, turning a post-Brexit deal from a fleeting possibility into an ever more realistic possibility. (Photo by Alberto Pezzali/AP Photo)





Martin McLoughlin, owner of Nicky's Plaice fishmongers, poses at his premises in the fishing village of Howth, Dublin, Ireland, Thursday, December 17, 2020. Irish coastal communities will be “annihilated” if Britain's post-Brexit fishing demands are granted, an Oireachtas committee has been told. (Photo by Brian Lawless/PA Wire via AP Photo)





Medical workers wearing protective gears prepare to take samples during a COVID-19 testing at coronavirus testing site in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, December 17, 2020. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)





A patient rolls up his sleeve to receive an injection of their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in their car at a drive-in vaccination centre in Hyde, Greater Manchester, northwest England on December 17, 2020. Covid vaccination at the drive in vaccine hub in Hyde started on December 16 with over-80s registered with a GP in the area being the first to be invited. The British government were set on December 17 to announce their decisions following a planned review of the coronavirus tier restriction allocations for the whole of England amid surging infection rates in London and parts of the southeast which have already resulted in the captial being moved into the highest tier. (Photo by Oli Scarff/AFP Photo)





Medical staff wait for the next in line for a throat and nasal swab at a COVID-19 testing facility of the Municipal Health Authority GGD, in Utrecht, Netherlands, Wednesday, December 16, 2020. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte imposed a tough lockdown Monday night in a speech to the nation ordering all non-essential shops and businesses such as hair salons, museums and theaters to close as coronavirus infection rates in the Netherlands rise sharply despite a two-month partial lockdown. (Photo by Peter Dejong/AP Photo)





A christmas tree decorated with face masks and toilet rolls is displayed in a store in the street in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, December 17, 2020. Some of Spain's regions are tightening health restrictions for the Christmas holidays with new COVID-19 cases already on the rise again. (Photo by Paul White/AP Photo)





Artists, dressed as clowns, perform from a crane to entertain elderly people at a care home in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, December 16, 2020. As the Czech Republic is facing a rise in new coronavirus infections in December visits of the elderly houses have been limited so the entertainers had to perform through a window. (Photo by Petr David Josek/AP Photo)





Physician Luisa Vera reacts after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine at Indiana University Health, Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana, December 16, 2020. (Photo by Bryan Woolston/Reuters)





A woman poses in a festive outfit in front of Christmas trees in Covent Garden, London, which has moved into the highest tier of coronavirus restrictions as a result of soaring case rates, Wednesday, December 16, 2020. (Photo by Victoria Jones/PA Wire via AP Photo)





Christmas lights illuminate a lookout point and Hotel Uto Kulm as a waxing crescent moon is seen, during the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on the peak of Mount Uetliberg, in Zurich, Switzerland on December 17, 2020. (Photo by Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)