وێنەی 23 ی دوازدەی 2021

People walk along La Rambla in downtown Barcelona, Spain. Spain is reporting almost 700 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over 14 days, more than double the accumulated cases before last year's Christmas holidays. The omicron strain has soared from 5% of new cases in Spain to 47% within one week.

Alpine Rescue Team members dressed as Santa Claus rappel down the Policlinico Umberto I Hospital to greet children hospitalized in the pediatric ward in Rome, Italy.

A diver wearing a Santa Claus costume performs at Koral Restaurant aquarium ahead of Christmas celebrations in Badung, Bali, Indonesia.

Catholic locals dressed as Joseph and Virgin Mary gather around a baby, five-moth-old Amarildo Vjerdha who plays the role of Jesus Christ, in the reenactment of the birth of Jesus Christ, in Hajmel, Albania.

Leonan Pereira da Silva plays the part of Black Santa during a food donation event for the residents of the Vila Cruzeiro favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

This aerial photograph taken on Dec. 22, 2021 shows the erupting Piton de la Fournaise volcano on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion.

Amelie and Ludo Khayat hold each other during a visit at the COVID-19 intensive care unit of the la Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France. Ludo, 41, is recovering from spending 24 days in a coma and on a ventilator in a COVID-19 intensive care unit. Amelie began visiting her husband daily after he started to test negative for the virus.

Binax Covid-19 testing kits are handed out in the Bensonhurst section of the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

Travelers form lines outside the TSA security checkpoint during the holiday season as the coronavirus Omicron variant threatens to increase case numbers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, Dec. 22, 2021.