Gasoline prices hiked amid omicron variant of COVID-19 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - JANUARY 28: A man walks past the headquarters of Brazilian Oil Company, Petrobras as gasoline price hiked in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on January 28, 2022. The poor have no other option, other than public transport due to rising gasoline price as the liter is 7.00 reais amid highly transmissible omicron variant of Covid-19. According to data of Health Ministry, at least 672 people in Brazil lost their lives over the last 24 hours, raising the virus-related death toll to 625,085 and 228,954 more people testing positive, the total number of cases topped 24.7 million. (Photo by Fabio Teixeira/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)