February 25, 2021

People wearing protective masks to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus run along a crosswalk area of a street in Tokyo. The Japanese capital confirmed more than 340 new coronavirus cases on Thursday.

A scientist works on the development of Abdala, an experimental vaccine for COVID-19, at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) in Havana, Cuba.

A Mayan spiritual guide places crosses with the names of people who died in the nation's civil war, which ended in 1996, in a circle for a ceremony marking National Day of Dignity for the Victims of Armed Internal Conflict, at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Guatemala. 

A worker is seen at a workshop at Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company (Kola MMC), a unit of Russia's metals and mining company Nornickel, in the town of Monchegorsk in the Murmansk area.

People are seen in a window at the Radisson Blu Hotel at Heathrow Airport, as Britain introduces a hotel quarantine program for arrivals from a "red list" of 30 countries due to the coronavirus pandemic, in London, Britain.

Athletes prepare for the ski jumping event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany.

A young polar bear named Kara plays in its area at the Zoological and Botanical park in Mulhouse, eastern France.

Virginia state Senator Amanda Chase, a Republican who refuses to wear a mask, sits inside a plexiglass booth put up for her in an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19 during the Senate special session at the Science Museum of Virginia remote location in Richmond, Virginia.

A worker wearing a protective suit and carrying an umbrella walks past the graves of COVID-19 victims at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery, in Manaus, Brazil.