People wear face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19 as they ice skate at a funfair in Paris, France, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021. France's Health Minister Olivier Veran announced that the country recorded a new record high of 208,000 new cases of COVID-19 infection in the past 24 hours. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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