SYDNEY — Plans to let thousands of frontline workers ring in the new year around Sydney Harbor were ditched Monday as authorities work to suppress a growing cluster of virus cases in Australia’s most populous city.
Ordinarily, hundreds of thousands of eager partiers flock to vantage points for the midnight fireworks launched from the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
Although allowing the usual hordes of resellers had been ruled out this year, officials had plans to welcome around 5,000 workers to the foreshore as a token of thanks for their work against the pandemic.
But that idea has now been axed over fears the celebrations could turn into a super-spreader event.
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