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Photos: New Year’s Eve celebrations welcome 2022 around the world

By Aaronn Sittig
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The world said goodbye to 2021, a year that was hamstrung by the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, and welcomed 2022 with high hopes. Celebrations around some areas were scaled back because of the rising number of cases blamed on the spread of the omicron variant.

In places in Serbia and France, revelers stood shoulder to shoulder awaiting festivities. Other places such as India had more subdued festivities. In New York, the annual Times Square celebration was scaled back but still welcomed celebrants unlike last year, which had no public event.

According to the Associated Press, “The city said it would limit the number of people it lets into Times Square to witness a 6-ton ball, encrusted with nearly 2,700 Waterford crystals, descend above a crowd of about 15,000 in-person spectators.”

Here are images from around the world:

AUSTRALIA

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as New Year’s Eve celebrations begin in Sydney, Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. (Dean Lewins/AAP Image via AP) 

JAPAN

A security guard holds up a sign indicating that there is no countdown event at the famed Shibuya scramble crossing, a popular location for New Year’s Eve gathering Friday, Dec. 31, 2021, in Tokyo as people gather to celebrate New Year’s eve. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato) 

THAILAND

Fireworks explode over the Chao Phraya River during New Year celebrations in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022, (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn) 

CHINA

Artiste Kong Ning wears her latest work entitled “Earth’s Snowflake” to usher in 2022 on the eve of the New Year in Beijing, China, Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) 

INDIA

Laser lights are seen at the Bandra Worli sea link on New year in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) 

Indians, wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, hold the cutouts to welcome 2022 on New Year’s Eve in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) 

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Ras Al Khaimah New Year’s Eve dazzled with a never seen before fireworks display that smashed two Guiness World Records at Al Marjan Island on Jan. 1, 2022, in Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. (Cedric Ribeiro/Getty Images for Marjan) 

Ras Al Khaimah New Year’s Eve dazzled with a never seen before fireworks display that smashed two Guinness World Records titles at Al Marjan Island on Jan. 1, 2022, in Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. (Cedric Ribeiro/Getty Images for Marjan) 

RUSSIA

Fireworks explode over the the St. Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin with the Spasskaya Tower are seen on empty Red Square due to pandemic restrictions during New Year’s celebrations, in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. Russia’s state coronavirus task force has registered a total of about 10.5 million confirmed infections and 308,860 deaths, but the state statistics agency that uses broader criteria in its tallying system has reported nearly 626,000 virus-linked deaths in Russia since the start of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr) 

TURKEY

Fireworks explode over the Ottoman-era Mecidiye mosque in Ortakoy square next to ‘July 15th Martyrs’ bridge, known as Bosphorus bridge, during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Istanbul, Turkey, early Saturday, Jan 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel) 

GREECE

Fireworks explode over the ancient Parthenon temple at the Acropolis hill during New Year’s celebrations in Athens, Greece, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis) 

GERMANY

Pyrotechnics operate at midnight with no live audience during televised-only New Year’s Eve celebrations held near the Brandenburg Gate on January 01, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. The German capital’s kickoff of the New Year, as in the previous instance, was a more toned-down affair than the one traditionally held, with no public audience allowed for its stage show and fireworks (Adam Berry/Getty Images) 

Party boats cruise over the river Main with only a few fireworks near the buildings of the banking district in Frankfurt, Germany, early Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. (Michael Probst/Associated Press) 

SWITZERLAND

People watch the sound and light show realized by Swiss artist Dan Acher called Borealis during the New Year celebrations at the parc des Bastions, in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. (Salvatore Di Nolfi)/Keystone via AP) 

FRANCE

People celebrate the New Year’s Eve on the Champs Elysees avenue, in Paris, Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) 

UNITED KINGDOM

Drones create a lion in the sky above the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich to bring in the New Year on Jan. 1, 2022, in London. The countries that make up the U.K. have differing COVID measures in place over the festive period. In Scotland, a maximum of 500 people can attend outdoor events where physical distancing of one meter is in place meaning the traditional Edinburgh Hogmanay celebrations have been canceled. In England, the government has not introduced any new measures. (Rob Pinney/Getty Images) 

SPAIN

Fireworks explode during New Year’s celebrations at the Madrid’s Puerta del Sol in downtown Madrid, Spain, early Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) 

BRAZIL

People bring in the New Year as they watch fireworks explode over Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado) 

Revelers enjoy the fireworks and celebrate the New Years on Copacabana beach on Jan. 01, 2022, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Due to the spread of the Omicron variant and the surge of cases, Mayor Eduardo Paes announced cancellation of massive and traditional celebration in the beach of Copacabana known as Reveillon. The event that every New Year’s Eve gathers hundreds of thousands of locals and tourists will consist of only a 16 minute fireworks display, with no live music shows nor massive gatherings. (Photo by Wagner Meier/Getty Images) 

NEW YORK

The New Year’s Eve Ball touches down to mark the beginning of the new year on January 1, 2022 in New York City. People began celebrating New Year’s Eve at Times Square in 1904, in 1907 the New Year’s Eve Ball made its first descent from the flagpole at One Times Square. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images) 

Irene Mayoral, left and Gerald Nuell, of Spain, kiss as they celebrate in Times Square in New York shortly after midnight Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022, as they attend New Year’s Eve celebrations. The couple became engaged Friday. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) 

BAY AREA

SAN CARLOS, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 31: Children reach for balloons during a 12pm New Year’s eve balloon drop at Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group) 

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