New Year's Eve gatherings are usually the parties to end all parties, with each country waiting for its own time zone to hit midnight so it can welcome January 1.
And while most would like to see the back of 2020, a year which has seen 1.8million deaths and 83.4million cases due to Covid since it emerged 12 months ago, celebrations were largely subdued.
Fireworks soared into the sky above many famous cities - London, Sydney, Moscow - but the streets below were a deserted ghost town, a fittingly creepy send-off for a year will not be remembered with much cheer.
And while the UK, Europe, the US and much of the world battles on with a new mutant strain continuing to run riot - countries like New Zealand, which held largely normal NYE
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