New Year 2021 fireworks
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A New Year's Eve memorial to victims of the Covid-19 pandemic is held on the Nelson Mandela Bridge in Johannesburg, South Africa. Joao Silva/The New York Times/Redux |
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Children play with sparklers in Caracas, Venezuela. Matias Delacroix/AP |
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Revelers celebrate on the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, the Netherlands' second largest city. ANP/AFP/Getty Images |
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Fireworks light the sky behind the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. Michael Sohn/AP |
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Two women celebrate in Newcastle, England. Lee Smith/Reuters |
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A member of the security staff at a concert in Berlin wears a face mask that reads "Happy New Year 2021." John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images |
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Lights are seen over the River Nile in the Egyptian capital Cairo. Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images |
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Residents of the San Jeronimo nursing home dance in Estella, Spain. Alvaro Barrientos/AP |
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People gather near Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, prior to the fireworks show in Dubai. Ali Haider/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock |
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People celebrate under the lights of a Christmas tree in Kyiv, Ukraine. Efrem Lukatsky/AP |
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Revelers celebrate on a balcony as a curfew is imposed in Johannesburg, South Africa. Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters |
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People take pictures and watch the first sunrise of the new year from a beach in Fujisawa, Japan. Ben Weller/AFLO/Reuters |
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People watch fireworks in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images |
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Passengers celebrate inside a party bus driving through Moscow, Russia. Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr./AP |
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People celebrate the new year in Wuhan, China, which nearly a year ago became the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Roman Pilipey/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock |
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Fireworks erupt over the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand. Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images |
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People pray for the new year at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. Carl Court/Getty Images |
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People in Beijing, China, walk past a display that reads "Happy New Year." Ng Han Guan/AP |
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People ring in the new year at the Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. Isaac Lawrence/AFP/Getty Images |
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An aerial view of students in Xiangyang, China, standing in formation to mark 2021. Yang Tao/VCG/Getty |
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People take a selfie in front of a neon Happy New Year sign in Melbourne, Australia. Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images |
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People watch The Black Seeds perform during New Year's Eve celebrations at Hagley Park in Christchurch, New Zealand. The country has become the poster child for how to deal with Covid-19. Its early lockdown and strict border measures mean it has suppressed the virus to an astonishing degree. Ernest Kung/AP |