In many places, New Year's Eve celebrations were muted or canceled for the second straight year due to a surge of coronavirus infections.
In many places, New Year's Eve celebrations were muted or canceled for the second straight year due to a surge of coronavirus infections.
Australia went ahead with its celebrations despite an explosion in virus cases. Thousands of fireworks lit up the sky over Sydney's Harbor Bridge and Opera House at midnight in a spectacular display. While there hasn't yet been any community spread of the omicron variant in New Zealand, authorities still wanted to discourage crowds gathering.
“A numbness has set in, and we are no longer overly afraid," said Matsuzawa, who lives in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo."Some of us are starting to take for granted that it won’t happen to me.”"You would like to think that we would come together as a nation and just look at the public health science side of this," says Robert Redfield, who served as head of the CDC under former President Donald Trump.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is advising people to avoid traveling via cruise ships, regardless of vaccination status, due to the high risk of COVID infection onboard ships.
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