A pandemic Christmas: Services move online, people stay home— After early success, S. Korea sleepwalks into virus crisis— Black doctor dies of COVID after racist treatment complaints— Around 1,000 British soldiers were spending Christmas Day trying to clear a huge backlog of truck drivers stranded in southeast England. — South Africa’ s normally joyful and lively Christmas celebrations have been dampened by the spike in new cases and deaths driven by the country’s variant of COVID-19. — U.S.