Pandemic restrictions are limiting crowds in many places around the world as people bid farewell to 2020.
This New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other, with pandemic restrictions limiting crowds in many places.
From New York’s Times Square to Sydney Harbour, big public blowouts are being turned into TV-only shows and digital events. But New Zealand, Taiwan and other places with successes against the virus are celebrating like usual.
People wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus visit Sensoji temple on New Year’s Eve in Tokyo (Hiro Komae/AP)
People pose for photographs while wearing protective masksin an empty Times Square (Frank Franklin II/AP)
Dancers perform during celebrations to mark the New Year, at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang (Jon Chol Jin/AP)
In Seattle, the Space Needle’s usual in-person fireworks display on New Year’s Eve will instead be a virtual display streamed on the internet (Ted S Warren/AP)
Visitors wearing face masks walk near a New Year banner at a shopping district in Seoul, South Korea (Lee Jin-man/AP)
People ride scooters in front of a banner welcoming New Year 2021 in Vung Tau city, Vietnam (Hau Dinh/AP)
People cross the Irrawaddy River near Mandalay, Myanmar, during the last sunset of the year (Aung Shine Oo/AP)
Fireworks explode over Hagley Park in Christchurch, New Zealand (Ernest Kung/AP)
Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as New Year celebrations begin in Sydney, Australia. Authorities advised revellers to watch the fireworks on television (Mark Baker/AP)
Germany is entering 2021 in lockdown (Michael Sohn/AP)
Offerings in honuor of the Goddess of the Sea Yemanja sit on Praia Vermelha beach to mark the end of the year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Bruna Prado/AP)
Fireworks detonate from the Taipei 101 building during the New Year’s celebrations in Taiwan (Chiang Ying-ying/AP)
Dubai celebrates the new year in Philippines by reflecting their national flag on the Burj Khalifa (Kamran Jebreili/AP)
A balloon vendor waits for customers in usually bustling Warsaw’s Castle Square (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
