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With prayers for a swift end to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Year of the Ox will be ushered in on Friday with hopes high for a more prosperous time ahead.
Many festivals, parades and concerts were cancelled due to coronavirus, but the Lunar New Year was still celebrated in smaller, more domestic ways.
A monk prays at a Buddhist shrine erected in a square in Melbourne’s Chinatown.
Credit:Chris Hopkins
Wayne Tseng, president of the Chinese Precinct Chamber of Commerce, which includes Melbourne’s Chinatown, said: “While we were planning to deliver a message of recovery for 2021 Lunar New Year, we were still finding ourselves in the middle of the pandemic.”