of covid you weren t allowed to. people were little out and 61 degrees a record, so was yesterday. omicron setting records. 190,000 cases in u.k. reported on new year s eve. on a per capita basis, double the number in the u.s. so many cases they ve run out of pcr tests in the u.k. and they re concerned what s going to happen after all of the families mixed over the holidays. sydney, australia is where the first big new year s celebration kicked off. it s already shy of 6:00 in the morning january 2, 2022 in some parts of australia right now, but tens of thousands of people turned out to watch the fireworks there. not as many as people as before the pandemic, but not far off. and not one to be outdone, dubai, too, went for it and they were gunning to get in the guinness book of world records with the scale of their celebrations. dubai is hosting expo 2020x.