The Latest: S Korea tightens pandemic rules over virus surge

Employee Grayson Allred walks away with a ladder after working on the front marquee at the Paramount Theatre on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, in Abilene, Texas. The marquee which in part reads, "It's A Wonderful Life, Cancelled", notifies all would-be patrons that the theatre has closed down indefinitely due to rising cases of COVID-19 in the city. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

A woman wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks near the display of South Korea's capital Seoul logo in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

A child, wearing a mask for protection against the COVID-19 infection, leans on the cross of a 1989 anti-communist revolution victim after a memorial religious service for those killed in the uprising, in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Participants and relatives of those killed marked the anniversary of the anti-communist uprising which started in Bucharest on Dec. 21, 1989, left more than one thousand people dead and ended the rule of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Passenger wearing a face mask walk past a flight information board at Paris' Charles de Gaulle international airport in Roissy, Monday Dec. 21, 2020. France is banning all travel from the U.K. for 48 hours in an attempt to make sure that a new strain of the coronavirus in Britain doesn't reach its shores. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

Surfers carry their boards along the beach front at Manly on the northern beaches in Sydney, Australia, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Sydney's northern beaches are in a lockdown similar to the one imposed during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March as a cluster of cases in the area increased to more than 80. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Nurses Glenda Grossi holds the hand of a patient at the COVID-19 ICU of the Tor Vergata Polyclinic Hospital, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020 while her husband Maurizio is at home to take care of their children. The coronavirus pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges for families around the world managing work and home life with children kept home from school and after-school activities. For the Di Giacobbe family, the juggling is even more complicated since mom and dad are intensive care nurses in the same COVID-19 ward and spend their days tag-teaming shifts, trying to give their patients the level of personal care and attention they would give their own children. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

People who were just tested for COVID-19 wait in line to make payment for the test at a private laboratory in Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday Dec. 19, 2020. South Africa is bracing for its second wave, as many people will travel across provinces for vacations and visiting their families. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

People wearing face masks to protect against the coronavirus make their way toward a station in Tokyo Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Daily coronavirus cases have been steadily on the rise nationwide. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike on Monday asked all residents to celebrate Christmas and New Year at home just with their families, and asked organizers to light-up events to close early in the night. (Kenzaburo Fukuhara/Kyodo News via AP)

Tessa Boulton, left, takes a swab test from triathlete Michael Kruse, dressed as Santa Claus, at the Corona testing centre at the Helios Clinic in Schwerin, Germany, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Kruse traditionally hands out Christmas presents at the clinic's children's ward at Christmas and therefore has to be tested for Corona in advance. (Jens Buettner/dpa via AP)

A medical worker prepares to treat a patient infected with COVID-19 at the intensive care unit of a hospital in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Russia has reported 29,350 new coronavirus cases, the country's biggest daily surge. Russia's total of over 2.8 million confirmed cases remains the fourth largest in the world. The state coronavirus task force has also reported over 51,000 deaths. (AP Photo/Roman Yarovitcyn)

A Sri Lankan boy reacts as health officials take his nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 outside a mosque in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

A pedestrain in a face mask walks past a restaurant with boarded-up windows on which hours of operation are listed along East Colfax Avenue Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, in downtown Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)