Holidays at the hospital amid COVID

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A Medical worker is seen at a desk decorated with Christmas decorations at the intensive care unit (ICU) at the university hospital in Aachen, Germany, December 21, 2020.

Ionut Ivan, a 40-year-old nurse, dressed in red Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and wearing a red hat and a makeshift cotton beard poses for a picture next to Brindusa Gheorghiu, a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the ICU of the Marius Nasta Pneumology Institute, in Bucharest, Romania December 22, 2020. Picture taken December 22, 2020. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea via REUTERS

Members of the association Child Guardian Angels prepare to give presents to children at the German Heart Centre as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Berlin, Germany, December 22, 2020.

A medical worker in a protective suit works inside an intensive care unit for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients, at the San Filippo Neri hospital, ahead of Christmas, in Rome, Italy, December 22, 2020.

Members of the association Child Guardian Angels give presents to children at the German Heart Centre as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Berlin, Germany, December 22, 2020.

A hospitalized child touches the hand of her mother through a plastic protection without risk of contamination or transmission of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Department of paediatric rehabilitation and developmental disabilities of IRCCS at the San Raffaele hospital, after children have wished for Christmas to see and hug their relatives, in Rome, Italy, December 22, 2020.

Nataya Gresham-Trotter applies lights, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, on a dressed Christmas tree in the intensive care unit at Roseland Community Hospital on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, U.S., December 8, 2020.

Members of the Slovenian Cave Rescue Association dressed as Santa Clauses rappel down the glass facade of a paediatric hospital in Ljubljana, Slovenia, December 21, 2020.

U.S. First lady Melania Trump reads a Christmas book to children who are patients at Children's National Hospital, in Washington, U.S., December 15, 2020. Due to pandemic concerns there were two children in the room and the reading was broadcast to children in the rest of the hospital. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS

A healthcare worker checks on a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) positive patient inside the COVID-19 unit at Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S., December 16, 2020.

A hospitalized child meets his best friend through a plastic protection without risk of contamination or transmission of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Department of paediatric rehabilitation and developmental disabilities of IRCCS at the San Raffaele hospital, after children have wished for Christmas to see and hug their relatives, in Rome, Italy, December 22, 2020.

Orthodox Archimandrite Vasilii gives blessing to medical personnel at a ward with patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Saint Anna hospital, in Sofia, Bulgaria, December 23, 2020. About 30 Orthodox priests, who have themselves recovered from coronavirus infection, visit patients in hospitals with COVID-19 wards in Sofia to offer spiritual support for early recovery on the eve of Christmas.

A hospitalized child holds his father's hand through a plastic protection without risk of contamination or transmission of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Department of paediatric rehabilitation and developmental disabilities of IRCCS at the San Raffaele hospital, after children have wished for Christmas to see and hug their relatives, in Rome, Italy, December 22, 2020.