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[SIZE=7]Thousands packed the streets to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Wuhan, where the coronavirus first emerged, as other cities worldwide were deserted[/SIZE]
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[li]The city of Wuhan, where the first-ever coronavirus cases were reported, celebrated New Year’s Eve in style.[/li][li]On New Year’s Eve, crowds gathered for the midnight countdown, enjoyed a funfair, and prayed at Buddhist temples.[/li][li]By contrast, many cities worldwide were forced to cancel the annual celebrations to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.[/li][li]Photos from Paris, London, New York, Berlin, and Milan show deserted squares where in previous years there would have been crowds of thousands.[/li][/ul]
In Wuhan, China, thousands gathered on the streets for the New Year celebration.
The city was the ground-zero of the coronavirus pandemic, and reported the first COVID-19 cluster exactly a year ago, on December 31, 2019.
Since May, it has been free from the virus following a strictly-enforced 76-day lockdown of its 11 million citizens.
Liberated from the threat of COVID-19 and life has returned to near-normal for Wuhan residents, and images from the city showed they could celebrate the New Year by cramming onto the streets to greet the New Year.
The scenes were the opposite of what could be observed in much of the rest of the world, where emergency public-health measures banished the usual crowds in the world’s best-known cities.
In New York, Times Square was deserted of revelers to watch the iconic ball drop, for the first time since 1907, reported Mail Online.
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Confetti flies around the ball and countdown clock in Times Square during the virtual New Year’s Eve event following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 1, 2021. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon