Gone were the revelry and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds that typify New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve, replaced by empty streets. Photo: EPA Gone were the revelry and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds that typify New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve, replaced by empty streets. Photo: EPA
Gone were the revelry and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds that typify New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve, replaced by empty streets. Photo: EPA
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World ushers in New Year as curtain closes on 2020

  • Millions around the world bid farewell to a year they’d prefer to forget
  • Some cities cancel or scale back their festivities because of Covid-19

Topic |   Coronavirus pandemic
Agencies

Updated: 11:43pm, 1 Jan, 2021

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Gone were the revelry and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds that typify New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve, replaced by empty streets. Photo: EPA Gone were the revelry and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds that typify New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve, replaced by empty streets. Photo: EPA
Gone were the revelry and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds that typify New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve, replaced by empty streets. Photo: EPA
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