Omicron cuts New Year’s Eve amidst COVID restrictions | Coronavirus Plague News
The Omicron coronavirus variants New Year’s festivities have polluted the world as Paris has banned its fireworks display, London has shown a radio show and New York City has reduced its popular footballing festival to Times Square.
A light ball of waterproof panels came down in the middle of the night in Times Square, but only 15,000 people were allowed to enter the theater.
New Year’s Eve, celebrated all over the world with a frenzy of free will, seemed like a deja vu, with the Omicron race spreading rapidly. filling hospitals, especially throughout Europe and the United States.
Last year, a newly discovered vaccine offered hope that the COVID-19 epidemic could be controlled by 2022. Instead, Omicron’s sudden arrival has led to an increase in the number of coronavirus cases worldwide.
Sue Park, a student at Columbia University who was one of the 15,000 people allowed to watch privately, said: “Honestly, I think it’s important to come and celebrate.”
U.S. President Joe Biden noted the loss and uncertainty caused by the epidemic but said: “We are working hard. We are recovering.
“Back to work. Go back to school. Come back to happiness, “Biden said in a video posted on Twitter.
In the middle of the night they passed through Paris without firefighters or DJ sets, while city officials banned events planned at the Champs-Elysees following the advice of a scientific team that declared public gatherings could be dangerous.
In Berlin, police in riot gear stormed a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck.
In the Netherlands, where foreign groups of more than four dozen people were banned, police dispersed several thousands of people who had gathered rally in the middle of Amsterdam’s Dam Square, the ANP news agency reported.
A New Year’s Eve display on St Paul’s Cathedral and Millennium Bridge [Toby Melville/Reuters]But in London, where a fire and lightweight display was discontinued in October, officials announced Friday that the show would be on live video, with Big Ben singing the New Year for the first time since 2017 following his re-launch.
BBC footage of the shooting showed a large number of traffic jams in smaller vehicles and almost no viewers.
Cape Town in South Africa – where the Omicron was first mentioned – suddenly removed the curfew just in New Year’s time.
“I’m just looking forward to Cape Town returning to the old Cape Town we all knew,” said Michael Mchede, manager of Hard Rock Cafe near the white sands of Camps Bay Beach, who was excited to prepare the venue. causing an unexpected bash.
A few hours earlier, the Australian city of Sydney celebrated the new year with something like this, when firefighters appeared on the dock above the Opera House.
Mom wears glasses for 2022 as she heads to New Year’s Eve party in Times Square [Hannah Beier/Reuters]People in Madrid stood for hours to enter the main stadium of Puerta del Sol as the festivities continued with a series of security checkpoints, official masks and a 60 percent regular increase. Only 7,000 people were allowed to enter the stadium, an area often home to about 20,000 protesters.
The display illuminated the festival, which the Spaniards put 12 grapes in their mouths to accompany the sound of each clock in the middle of the night.
In Asia, incidents have been reduced or eliminated, such as the rallies at the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
People gather at the Puerta del Sol Stadium for the New Year’s celebration in Madrid [Javier Barbancho/Reuters]In South Korea, the midnight bell-breaking ceremony was abolished for the second year in a row, when celebrations were banned in the shady Tokyo state of Shibuya, and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida took to YouTube to encourage people to wear masks and reduce party numbers.
China, where the coronavirus was reported in late 2019, was alert, Xi’an was closed and New Year’s events in other cities were abolished.
More than 288 million people have been infected worldwide by the end of 2019 and more than five million have died, according to a study published by Johns Hopkins University.
