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Added on the 01/01/2022 00:40:06 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Moscow celebrates 2022 with a fireworks display over an empty Red Square to which access was restricted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. IMAGES
"Ecological" fireworks, made of Japanese sticky rice, light up the sky above Bangkok, in Thailand, celebrating the start of the New Year. IMAGES
Fireworks light up the sky from the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai as the clock strikes midnight in the United Arab Emirates. The world began ushering in the New Year with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid farewell to a virus-ridden 2020. IMAGES
Usually very busy, the Puerta del Sol in Madrid is almost empty as Spain continues its quarantine in an effort to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. The outbreak is spreading in the country, and the death toll has surpassed 2,000. IMAGES
Madrid's Puerta del Sol, normally full of people, is empty as the national lockdown continues in order to halt the spread of the coronavirus. Madrid remains the worst-hit area, accounting for 5,637 cases, or 41 percent of the infections in Spain, while the number of deaths there rose to 390 deaths -- around two-thirds of the national total. IMAGES