A performer wears a face shield at a shopping center on New Year's Eve during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Bangkok, Thailand on December 31, 2020. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)
A woman takes part in a carnival parade as part of New Year's Eve festivities in San Jose, Costa Rica, 27 December 2023. (Photo by Jeffrey Arguedas/EPA/EFE)
Students wearing traditional costumes celebrate on the eve of “Ugadi” festival, or new year's day as per the Hindu lunisolar calendar, in Chennai on April 1, 2022. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)
A woman kisses her mother during a New Year's Eve party in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on December 31, 2022. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)
A man dressed in Christmas garb smokes a hand-rolled cigarette, Thursday, December 24, 2020, in Times Square on Christmas Eve in New York. (Photo by Kathy Willens/AP Photo)
People pose for pictures on the banks of Yangtze River on New Year's Eve in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province on December 31, 2020. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP Photo)
A Minion character dressed in a Christmas theme is pictured in Times Square during unseasonably warm weather on Christmas Eve in the Manhattan borough of New York, December 24, 2015. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters)