Father Enzo Fortunato uncovers a life size figurine of a nurse outside the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, in honour of medical workers who have been battling the coronavirus disease this year, in Assisi, Italy. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

A swimmer enters the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park during cold and foggy weather, in London, Britain. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

A pedestrian walks during heavy snowfall in Lienz in East Tyrol. AFP / APA / EXPA

An employee squats between exhibits of the traditional Gingerbread Town in Bergen, Norway. AFP / NTB / Marit Hommedal

People walk past the Colosseum monument in Rome reflected in a pool of water following heavy rains. AFP / Alberto PIZZOLI

Syrian school children wearing masks due to the Covid-19 pandemic, sit at a makeshift school set up by locals in the village of Ma'arin on the outskirts of Azaz in the rebel-controlled northern countryside of Syria's Aleppo province. AFP / AAREF WATAD