A health worker poses with a syringe and dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at the Museum of Tomorrow, in Rio de Janeiro, on January 18, 2022...

Shoppers cross Oxford Street, London, Britain, December 28, 2021...

US President Joe Biden holds a virtual meeting with the National Governors Association to discuss his administration’s response to the Omicron variant, December 27, 2021...

People wait in line at a Miami-Dade County COVID-19 testing site, Monday, July 26, 2021, in Hialeah, Florida...

The United States has surpassed 35 million recorded COVID-19 cases...

Sajid Javid, health secretary, leaves No.10 Downing Street...

A health worker prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine at a temporary vaccine centre set up at City Hall in Hull, northeast England on May 7, 2021...

People leave Manhattan’s Javits Center which recently opened as a COVID-19 vaccination site on January 13, 2021, in New York City...

Paramedics tidy up an ambulance wearing PPE outside the Royal London hospital in London on January 10, 2021 as surging cases of the novel coronavirus are placing health services under increasing pressure...

This handout photo courtesy of Valley Children’s Healthcare shows Dr...

A medical staff member (C) wearing protective gear in a booth prepares to give tests for COVID-19 at a temporary testing station outside the City Hall in Seoul, South Korea, on December 23, 2020...

A man looks at an electronic board showing a stock price of K-pop management agency Big Hit Entertainment after the company’s initial public offering ceremony at the lobby of the Korea Exchange in Seoul on October 15, 2020...

Medical specialists wearing protective gear talk next to ambulances near the Aleksandrovskaya Hospital, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 9, 2020...

President Trump shaking hands with White House physician Dr...

File photo of a nurse preparing Russia’s Sputnik-V vaccine against the coronavirus disease for inoculation in a post-registration trials stage at a clinic in Moscow...

In this file photo taken on US President Donald Trump as he speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One as he flies from Manchester, New Hampshire to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, following a campaign rally...

Australia’s planned historic maiden Test against Afghanistan has become the latest victim of the global coronavirus pandemic, with the one-off match scheduled for later this year postponed until next year...

Currency traders work at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Sept...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a meeting of the national task force for fighting the coronavirus in Tehran, on September 12, 2020...

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks about reopening schools amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Wilmington, Delaware, US, on September 2, 2020...

A woman walks past a sign urging people to stay home in Melbourne on August 14, 2020, as the city battles an outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus...

Health officials wearing protective gear guide a visitor at a COVID-19 coronavirus testing station in Seoul, South Korea, on August 18, 2020...

The Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery where new graves have been dug in Manaus, Brazil (File photo) The number of coronavirus fatalities across Latin America has surpassed the 250,000 mark as the pandemic continues to overwhelm the region that has become the world’s worst-hit so far...

Vials of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate, co-developed by Chinese biopharmaceutical firm CanSino Biologics Inc and a team led by Chinese military infectious disease expert, are pictured in Wuhan, in Hubei Province, China, on March 24, 2020...

Maryland Rep Julian Ivey speaks out about evictions after gathering with others outside of an apartment complex, in Mount Rainier, MD, US, on August 10, 2020...

Italian Senator Gianluigi Paragone speaks to media outside the Italian Senate in this still image taken from video, in Rome, March 24, 2018...

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House, July 23, 2020...

The World Health Organization’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Photo by AFP) The World Health Organization’s chief fires back at the US over Washington’s latest attack on the body that saw Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claiming he entered a deal with China to get his job...

A man and children wearing masks to protect against contracting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) take a walk at a Han River Park in Seoul, South Korea, April 4, 2020...

A woman, wearing a protective facemask. July 4, 2020, (AFP) Face masks will be mandatory in shops and supermarkets across England as of Friday, individuals will have to cover their mouths and noses when entering sandwich shops or takeaways according to the government’s guidance...

EMTs cleanse their materials outside Memorial West Hospital where coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients are treated, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, US, July 13, 2020...

Contact tracers with the Houston Health Department monitor the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Houston, Texas, US, on July 22, 2020...

A patient infected with the new coronavirus remains in the Doctor Alberto Antranik Eurnekian Public Hospital in Ezeiza, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on July 1, 2020...

A view of a container port at Busan, South Korea taken on June 10, 2020...

Medical staff wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) treat a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit of Lviv emergency hospital, in Lviv, Ukraine, on June 30, 2020...

US President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing at the White House on Tuesday, July 21, 2020...

WHO’s Michael Ryan and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus have warned about the impact of COVID-19 in Africa The executive director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health Emergency Program, has warned that the African continent is faced with a steep acceleration of coronavirus cases...

South Korean soldiers take part in a live-fire exercise near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, South Korea, on June 23, 2020...

File combination of photos created on March 07, 2020, shows a small crowd of worshipers around the sacred Kaaba in Mecca’s Grand Mosque on March 7, 2020, and a large crowd during the pilgrimage, on August 13, 2019...

Scientists at the University of Oxford say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot...

US President Donald Trump speaks in a wide-ranging interview with Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace...

Senior doctors are pleading with the public to help prevent a second wave of coronavirus that could devastate the NHS, amid concern at mixed government messages about face masks and returning to work...

A woman is seen holding a small bottle labeled Vaccine COVID-19 and a medical syringe in this photo illustration taken on April 10, 2020...

Doctors and researchers are now warning that mental health crisis linked to the coronavirus outbreak reverberates deeper among black people...

Customers wait in line at the Apple Store on May 13, 2020 in Charleston, South Carolina...

In this file photo, a doctor treats a patient infected with coronavirus, who is on a ventilator in the isolation room at the National Koranyi Pulmonology Institute of Budapest, Hungary...

US President Donald Trump pauses as he speaks prior to signing an Executive Order on the White House Hispanic Prosperity Initiative in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, US, July 9, 2020...

US President Donald Trump walks to the press before departing the White House on June 20, 2020 in Washington, DC, for a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma...

Workers handle a coffin at the Rio Pax funeral company storage, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 3, 2020...

The COVID-19 unit at the DHR Health Center in Edinburg on June 30, 2020...