By Stella Qiu (Reuters) -Australia celebrated its first restriction-free New Year s Eve after two years of COVID disruptions, as the world began bidding farewell to a year marked for many by the war in Ukraine, economic stresses and the effects of global warming. Revellers celebrated across Asia from China to the Philippines to Thailand. Sydney, one of the world s first major cities to welcome in the New Year, did so with a typically dazzling fireworks display, which for the first time featured a rainbow waterfall off the famous Harbour Bridge. This New Year s Eve we are saying Sydney is back as we kick off festivities around the world and bring in the New Year with a bang, said Clover Moore, lord mayor of the city, ahead of the events. Lockdowns at the end of 2020 and a surge in Omicron cases at the end of 2021 led to crowd restrictions and reduced festivities in Australia. However, curbs on celebrations were lifted this year after Australia, like many countries around the world, re-o
While some major cities around the world marked the New Year with a bang and festivities, celebrations were more muted in places with surges of Covid-19 or enmeshed in conflict.
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