Precautions and restrictions. How was the world expected in 2022? / Script

Precautions and restrictions. How was the world expected in 2022?

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The first occurrences are usually expected by the people of Samoa and Kiribati in the Pacific Islands. Unlike last year, Samoa did not give up the annual fireworks and attracted pyrotechnicians from New Zealand, but in New Zealand itself this time the traditional fireworks were replaced by a light show projected on the 328-meter-high Sky Tower in Auckland and the Harbor Bridge. Although the omicron variant of the new coronavirus has not yet made itself known in New Zealand, the authorities have decided to exercise caution and not to encourage congestion.

Meanwhile, the acclaimed Sydney New Year’s fireworks were not canceled this year, despite a sharp rise in the number of infections in Australia and especially in Sydney itself, which proudly called itself the “world New Year’s capital” before the pandemic.

However, this time it attracted far fewer spectators – the number of people was in the tens of thousands, but before the pandemic it usually exceeded one million. Six tons of pyrotechnic articles were used for the fireworks, illuminating the Harbor Bridge and Sydney Opera House brightly, but spectators who had purchased tickets could watch it from a number of special locations. According to one of the spectators, live fireworks were not planned at all.

“My son bought tickets and his family was going to go here. But in the end they got sick of cowids and that’s why they gave us the tickets,” she revealed.

Dubai’s rapid spread of the coronavirus also did not deter plans to host an impressive pyrotechnics show from the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa.

Anniversary fireworks and major festivities were abolished in many parts of the world. For example, Tunisia abandoned a scheduled concert and celebration in the capital, Tunisia, at the last minute. A less ambitious event than usual is also expected on the popular Copacoban beach in Brazil.

Berlin did not celebrate the New Year with large-scale fireworks at the Brandenburg Gate, which would gather hundreds of thousands of spectators, and in the last days of the year, the sale of pyrotechnics was banned in Germany to curb gatherings and prevent the spread of Covid-19 and hospital congestion.

Meanwhile, much of Spain’s mass events were banned on New Year’s Eve, but in the capital, Madrid, in the city’s central square, only seven thousand to 20 thousand people were allowed to gather. Everyone had to wear masks and keep a distance, which was also reminded by the police on the loudspeakers, but when midnight arrived, a large number of people did not comply.

But in France, despite the abolition of fireworks and other annual ceremonies and the wearing of masks in all city centers, many people gathered in the Champs Elysées in Paris to look forward to 2022.

In Central and Eastern Europe, however, restrictions on New Year’s Eve celebrations were relaxed in most countries. In the Czech Republic, for example, unlike last year, there was fireworks, while in Poland the doors were opened by nightclubs and bars that had previously been closed.

Further east, in Russia, the New Year celebrations were largely unrestricted.

The New Year’s show was scheduled to take place in Times Square, New York. Up to 15,000 people were allowed to gather there. About 60,000 people usually wait for the New Year there. Due to the rapid spread of the virus, other US cities have given up celebrations.

It takes a total of 26 hours for the whole world to welcome the New Year, from Samoa and Tonga to the other small Pacific islands.

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