New Year’s Eve 2021: celebrations around the world amid concern over Covid – live updates

Latest updates as fireworks and parties make a comeback around the world following a year of lockdowns and new variants

Another chunk of the planet has just gone past midnight and into 2022. Vladivostok isn’t quite far east enough in Russia to have done so yet – it is still just gone 11pm there – but it looks like the party is in full swing in in Revolution Fighters Square.

There’s a treat in store for traditionalists in London today, as Maya Wolfe-Robinson reports:

Continue reading…
Source: The Guardian