In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations

While freshes wave of coronavirus have sparked renewed lockdowns, the world began ushering in the New Year with pandemic controlling muting celebrations. Here are the memorable photos of billions of people eager to bid farewell to 2020 over the world.
January 01, 2021 | 22:42
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Masked pedestrians pass a celebrating couple in Melbourne, Australia Photograph: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images FacebookTwitterPinterest
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A sign outside Flinders Street station in Melbourne, Australia Photograph: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
A composite image compares the crowd size at Sydney’s Circular Quay on New Year’s Eve 2019 (top) and today Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/Dean Lewins/EPA FacebookTwitterPinterest
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
The Sydney Harbour Bridge pylon is lit with a Covid-19 safety message ahead of the midnight fireworks Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP FacebookTwitterPinterest
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Police patrol at Sydney Opera House during New Year’s Eve celebrations. This years fireworks display has been shortened to seven minutes, with numerous other restrictions in place Photograph: Brook Mitchell/Getty Images FacebookTwitterPinterest
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Fireworks from the SkyTower during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Auckland, New Zealand Photograph: Dave Rowland/Getty Images FacebookTwitterPinterest
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Craftsmen perform a molten iron fireworks display in Zaozhuang, China Photograph: VCG/Getty Images
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
A couple take a selfie in Hong Kong Photograph: Isaac Lawrence/AFP/Getty Images FacebookTwitterPinterest
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Fireworks explode in Baghdad, Iraq Photograph: Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
People watch a flag-raising ceremony and fireworks display in Pyongyang, North Korea Photograph: Jon Chol Jin/AP
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Young people celebrate in front of a 2021 tree at Namsan mountain in Seoul, South Korea Photograph: Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Guests stand at hotel room windows in Jakarta, Indonesia Photograph: Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/Reuters FacebookTwitterPinterest
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Crowds gather to celebrate the arrival of the new year in Wuhan, China Photograph: Tingshu Wang/Reuters
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Fireworks and light effects illuminate the night sky around the Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taiwan Photograph: Ritchie B Tongo/EPA
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Fireworks erupt over the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok, Thailand Photograph: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images FacebookTwitterPinterest
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Crowds celebrate around a Christmas tree in Kiev, Ukraine Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
People celebrate after counting down to the new year in a bar in Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images FacebookTwitterPinterest
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Fireworks illuminate the night sky in Kenya, Nairobi Photograph: Dennis Sigwe/Rex/Shutterstock FacebookTwitterPinterest
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
The Ras al Khaimah celebrations in the UAE’s northernmost emirate Photograph: Handout
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
A light show illuminates Konak square in Izmir, Turkey, during a curfew Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Revellers celebrate in the Scheveningen, in the Netherlands where fireworks were banned Photograph: Remco Koers/EPA
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Fireworks explode over the Acropolis in Athens, Greece Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images FacebookTwitterPinterest
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Fireworks explode behind the Kremlin’s Spasskaya tower in Moscow, Russia Photograph: Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters FacebookTwitterPinterest
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Mounted police officers patrol the Victoria Embankment opposite the London Eye Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images FacebookTwitterPinterest
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Confetti showers a quiet Times Square in New York Photograph: Corey Sipkin/AFP/Getty Images FacebookTwitterPinterest
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
Jennifer Lopez performs in Times Square for a recording of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Photograph: Jeff Neira/ABC/Shutterstock
In photos: New Year's Eve around the world with pandemic controlling muting celebrations
A tourist from Guatemala wears festive glasses in Mexico City Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP
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