4 hours agoPart of the planet has already entered 2021
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Planet Earth began turning a new page Thursday in hopes that 2021 will be happier than the year marked by pandemic, forcing billions of people to spend the longest night locked in their homes. Little Kiribati Archipelago and the Samoa Islands in the Pacific entered [...]
The small Kiribati Archipelago and the Samoa Islands entered the Pacific for the first time in 2021 at 11: 00 a.m. with the Central European time, with the uninhabited Howland and Baker islands that entered in 2021 hours later.
An hour later, in 2021, New Zealand sailed, with only minor restrictions in power, making the country unique after failing to cancel wild gatherings, and the inhabitants of Auckland saw fireworks on the street.
Residents of other countries are not so fortunate, and all from Sydney to Rome fireworks, of course, if not canceled, can be monitored only through small screens or computers.
Because of the closures and restrictions of movement imposed by authorities around the world as part of measures to fight COVID-19 that killed at least 1.8 million people, citizens are celebrating New Year's Eve on December 31st in their home and can only remember noisy wild celebrations with fire and gas pans.
In Sydney, Australia's largest city, the most famous New Year's fireworks show was held at 2 after midnight CET saw an audience as a new hot hearth appeared in the north of the city where 150 cases were infected.
In Dubai, thousands of people will welcome the New Year by watching the pyrotechnic and laser spectacle in the world's largest tower, Burj Khalifa, even though new COVID-19 infections have been confirmed.
Everyone has to wear masks and register with a QR code.
In Beirut, which is struggling to recover from a devastating deadly explosion on August 4th, authorities eased the measures and moved the curfew to 3am. Bars, restaurants and nightclubs have been reopened for reception.
People around the world are afraid to ask what tomorrow brings. Doctors in Brazil, the second largest country in the world in terms of COVID-19, fear a new wave. Videos of celebrations of a large number of people without masks, but police officers closing down bars full of customers are being circulated on social networks.
In a New Year's message to its people, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that the <x0-historic crisis” caused by the choreography could be extended until 2021, despite the fact that the “soll hope”.
