A woman wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus takes a picture of a lion statue with a face mask at a park in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. South Korea is expanding the use of rapid tests and deploying hundreds of police officers and soldiers to help with contact tracing as it deals with its worst surge of coronavirus cases since the early days of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Nurse Hyad Boina, left, prepares a syringe to use in the treatment of a patient in room No. 9 in his battle against COVID-19 at Bichat Hospital, AP-HP, in Paris. AP Photo
This aerial picture taken in Mamak, district of Ankara, on December 10, 2020 shows graves in Ortakoy cemetery, the main burial site for people who died during the Covid-19 pandemic in Ankara, Turkey. AFP
A doctor wearing protective gears works at the intensive care unit of Szent Laszlo Hospital in Budapest, Hungary. EPA
A paramedic from Turkey’s 112 Emergency Healthcare services disinfects the ambulance after transporting a Covid-19 positive patient in Istanbul, Turkey. Getty Images
A nurse wearing face mask stands near a Christmas tree at the intensive care unit of Szent Laszlo Hospital in Budapest, Hungary. EPA
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban talk at the start of a two days face-to-face EU summit in Brussels, Belgium. Reuters
Wesley Wheeler, President of Global Healthcare at United Parcel Service (UPS) holds up an example of the Pfizer vaccine vial during a Senate hearing on vaccine logisitcs on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC. Reuters
Social distancing bubble tents for dining are seen amid in New York City. AFP
Residents stand in line at a Covid-19 testing centre set-up in the grounds of the Richland Gardens housing estate in the Kowloon Bay area of Hong Kong. Bloomberg
The patient in room No. 10, is pictured hours before he died after his nearly month-long battle against COVID-19 at Bichat Hospital, AP-HP, in Paris Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. The patient in room No. 10 died on Dec. 1. His was one of 775 virus deaths in France that day, adding to a national death toll now topping 56,000 and the worldwide count of more than 1.5 million dead. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Placards reading : "Be Courteous with the Staff" and "All Verbal or Physical Aggression with the Hospital Staff is liable to Criminal Prosecution" are adhered to a wall at Bichat Hospital, AP-HP, in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
A woman wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus takes a picture of a lion statue with a face mask at a park in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. South Korea is expanding the use of rapid tests and deploying hundreds of police officers and soldiers to help with contact tracing as it deals with its worst surge of coronavirus cases since the early days of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Nurse Hyad Boina, left, prepares a syringe to use in the treatment of a patient in room No. 9 in his battle against COVID-19 at Bichat Hospital, AP-HP, in Paris. AP Photo
This aerial picture taken in Mamak, district of Ankara, on December 10, 2020 shows graves in Ortakoy cemetery, the main burial site for people who died during the Covid-19 pandemic in Ankara, Turkey. AFP
A doctor wearing protective gears works at the intensive care unit of Szent Laszlo Hospital in Budapest, Hungary. EPA
A paramedic from Turkey’s 112 Emergency Healthcare services disinfects the ambulance after transporting a Covid-19 positive patient in Istanbul, Turkey. Getty Images
A nurse wearing face mask stands near a Christmas tree at the intensive care unit of Szent Laszlo Hospital in Budapest, Hungary. EPA
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban talk at the start of a two days face-to-face EU summit in Brussels, Belgium. Reuters
Wesley Wheeler, President of Global Healthcare at United Parcel Service (UPS) holds up an example of the Pfizer vaccine vial during a Senate hearing on vaccine logisitcs on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC. Reuters
Social distancing bubble tents for dining are seen amid in New York City. AFP
Residents stand in line at a Covid-19 testing centre set-up in the grounds of the Richland Gardens housing estate in the Kowloon Bay area of Hong Kong. Bloomberg
The patient in room No. 10, is pictured hours before he died after his nearly month-long battle against COVID-19 at Bichat Hospital, AP-HP, in Paris Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. The patient in room No. 10 died on Dec. 1. His was one of 775 virus deaths in France that day, adding to a national death toll now topping 56,000 and the worldwide count of more than 1.5 million dead. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Placards reading : "Be Courteous with the Staff" and "All Verbal or Physical Aggression with the Hospital Staff is liable to Criminal Prosecution" are adhered to a wall at Bichat Hospital, AP-HP, in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
A woman wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus takes a picture of a lion statue with a face mask at a park in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. South Korea is expanding the use of rapid tests and deploying hundreds of police officers and soldiers to help with contact tracing as it deals with its worst surge of coronavirus cases since the early days of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Bahrain to provide Covid-19 vaccinations free of charge
Kingdom has authorised the use of Pfizer-BioNTech and Sinopharm vaccines
