The United States logged its highest ever daily death toll from the coronavirus Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) as the world prepares to turn the page on a grim year defined by the pandemic, with much of the globe united in one hope for 2021: that a slew of new vaccines will stamp out Covid-19.
Paramedics move a patient suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus into the 22 Battalion of the Military Police Hospital, in Mexico City, on December 30, 2020. - Mexico has registered more than 124,000 coronavirus deaths -- the world's fourth-highest toll after the United States, Brazil and India. (Photo by PEDRO PARDO / AFP)