Australian Federal Police Tactical Response officer inspects the damage over the Chinatown area from the air during an operation in Honiara, Solomon Islands, Wednesday, December 1, 2021. New Zealand announced Wednesday that they will send up to 65 military and police personnel to the Solomon Islands over the coming days after rioting and looting broke out there last week. (Photo by Gary Ramage via AP Photo)
Police officers detain a man after he entered the grounds of the Houses of Parliament in London, Wednesday, December 1, 2021. (Photo by David Cliff/AP Photo)
Medics wearing PPE are seen inside the Airbus A310-900 MRTT MedEvac Hermann Koehl of the German armed forces Bundeswehr as they prepare an airlift and transport of patients infected with the coronavirus (Covid-19) to other intensive care units (ICU) in the country, at Dresden International Airport, Saxony, eastern Germany on December 1, 2021. Because of high infections rates in the eastern German state of Saxony, Covid patients are flown by the German Air Force to North-Rhine Westphalia. (Photo by Ronny Hartmann/AFP Photo)
A passenger walks by arrival information screens for international flights at the Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Thursday, December 2, 2021. Going further than many other countries in trying to contain the virus, Japan has banned foreign visitors and asked international airlines to stop taking new reservations for all flights arriving in the country until the end of December. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)
Police officers wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus carry barricades in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, December 2, 2021. South Korea broke its daily record for coronavirus infections for a second straight day on Thursday with more than 5,200 new cases, as pressure mounted on a health care system grappling with rising hospitalizations and deaths. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)
A passenger takes a photo of a passport inside a terminal of the Barcelona Airport, Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Health authorities in the Spanish capital have confirmed a second case of the omicron coronavirus variant in a 61-year-old woman who had returned from a trip to South Africa on Monday. Meanwhile lines have returned for those seeking vaccine shots in Portugal and Spain as they step up efforts to close the gap of the few residents still unvaccinated. (Photo by Joan Mateu Parra/AP Photo)
A Nigeria civil servant receives an AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, before she is allow access to her office in Abuja, Nigeria , Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Nigeria has detected its first case of the omicron coronavirus variant in a sample it collected in October, weeks before South Africa alerted the world about the variant last week, the country's national public health institute said Wednesday. (Photo by Gbemiga Olamikan/AP Photo)
A woman gets vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) through a window outside a doctor's practice, in the district of Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany December 1, 2021. (Photo by Annegret Hilse/Reuters)
People willing to be vaccinated sit in the vaccination booths at the Vaccination Center at Messe Dresden, Germany, Wednesday, December 1, 2021. The vaccination centre, which was closed two months ago, has been restarted. (Photo by Sebastian Kahnert/dpa via AP Photo)
Nurse Carolina administers a booster shot of the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 to a fellow nurse on the first day of a new vaccination center in Lisbon, Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Long lines formed at the Portuguese capital's largest vaccination center to date as authorities there tried to encourage the 2% of the population who are not vaccinated yet, Europe's lowest rate, and to speed up the administration of booster shots. (Photo by Armando Franca/AP Photo)
Commuters with and without face coverings ride a tube train at Stratford underground station in east London on December 1, 2021. Britain will require all arriving passengers to isolate until they can show a negative PCR test against Covid-19 and is restoring a mandate to wear face masks in shops and public transport as part of its response to the new Omicron strain of Covid-19. (Photo by Daniel Leal/AFP Photo)
A medical worker receives a booster shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday, December 1, 2021, at Fujita Health University Hospital, in Toyoake city, central Japan. Japan on Wednesday started offering booster shots of coronavirus vaccine, starting with healthcare workers, to further bolster immunity in the country amid growing concerns about a new variant of the virus. (Photo by Mizuki Ikari/Kyodo News via AP Photo)
Commuters wear protective face masks as they walk through a subway station, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, December 1, 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Brazil joined the widening circle of countries to report cases of the omicron variant. (Photo by Andre Penner/AP Photo)
A fissure is seen next to a house covered with ash on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain, Wednesday, December 1 2021. A fissure that volcanologists believe spouted a gusher of lava left a gaping hole in front of house whose bottom floor was completely covered by a mountain of ash. A fresh stream of lava from volcano on Spain's La Palma threatened on Wednesday to engulf a parish church that has so far survived the eruption that shows no signs of relenting in its tenth week. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish yeshiva student lights candles on the fourth day of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day commemoration of the Jewish uprising in the second century B.C. against the Greek-Syrian kingdom, which had tried to put statues of Greek gods in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)
A Swiss Guard stands at the Paul VI Audience Hall ahead of the weekly general audience at the Vatican, December 1, 2021. (Photo by Yara Nardi/Reuters)
A woman worships a wild male elephant , one of two killed by a train in Durung Pathar, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Speeding trains have run down dozens of wild elephants in Assam in the past, forcing the Indian Railways, which runs the trains, to regulate speed in known elephant corridors. Assam, which has a history of man-elephant conflict, has an estimated 5,000 wild Asiatic elephants. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)
An excavator lifts a wild male elephant, one of two killed by a train in Durung Pathar, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Speeding trains have run down dozens of wild elephants in Assam in the past, forcing the Indian Railways, which runs the trains, to regulate speed in known elephant corridors. Assam, which has a history of man-elephant conflict, has an estimated 5,000 wild Asiatic elephants. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)
Villagers throw salt to help in decomposing the body of a wild male elephant, one of two killed by a train in Durung Pathar, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Wednesday, December 1, 2021. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)