KUALA LUMPUR: Large scale Christmas or New Year's Eve celebrations are not allowed to be organised this year, says Khairy Jamaluddin. The Heath Minister said that only small and private Christmas and New Year's Eve celebration gatherings are allowed at the moment." We are not allowing big New Year's Eve gatherings.... For private New Year's Eve, as well as private Christmas celebrations, you will need to do a self-test before going to those events," he told a press conference in Parliament on T

Join our Whatsapp channel The Karachi Traffic Police on Monday issued the traffic plan for the metropolis for New Year’s Eve. New Year’s Eve in Karachi sees citizens performing aerial gunfire and using fireworks which have caused injury in the past. Section 144 is already set to be imposed for 48 hours starting on December 31 to January 1 on the carrying/ display of arms, aerial firing and use of firecrackers. ADVERTISEMENT Ads by KARAM MEDIA Next Stay Playback speed 1x Normal Quality Auto Back

New Year's Eve celebrations for 2021 were significantly scaled back due to COVID, with hopes of larger celebrations to mark 2022.... Yana Paskova/ Reuters Jessica Martini, 7, holds a hat with pieces of confetti in it, as New Year's Eve confetti is' flight-tested' ahead of celebrations in Times Square, New York City, Dec.... " What I would suggest people do not do is to go to very large, 50 to 60 person parties where people are blowing whistles and all that sort of thing and celebrating and you

KUCHING: The Sarawak State Disaster Management Committee( SDMC) has prohibited the holding of any activities to usher in the New Year as the state is still under Phase Three of the National Recovery Plan which requires business premises to cease operations by midnight daily.... Sarawak SDMC, in a statement on Tuesday( Dec 28), said operators of business premises found breaching this ban would be compounded and that enforcement authorities would intensify integrated operations to monitor complia

New Year’s Eve saw a “ shift in behaviour ” from the cautious attitude of shoppers ahead of Christmas, as high street footfall rose, retail experts say. Footfall increased by 5.2% on UK high streets on December 31 compared with a week earlier on Christmas Eve, according to data from industry analyst Springboard In central London alone, footfall surged by 54.8% on New Year’s Eve from a week earlier. This is in contrast to pre-pandemic levels when high street footfall across the UK declined by 9%

That compared with about 1, 400 U.S. cancellations for all of Thursday. That pushed the total U.S. cancellations since Christmas Eve above 9, 000. Advertisement BusinessFlying is already miserable this year.... The disruptions come just as travel numbers climb higher going into the New Year’s holiday weekend.... The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that it is monitoring more than 90 cruise ships because of COVID-19 outbreaks....

WhatsApp Facebook Twitter Email Messenger KUWAIT CITY, Dec 30: The Ministry of Interior is preparing a comprehensive plan to administervarious locations by assigning850 patrols around Kuwait to deal with any violations during new years eve.... Besides this security personnel will be monitoring the roads through control room and operation room to follow upwith any traffic jams or accidents. Anyone who violates rules and regulations or who disturbspeople and blocks roads will be firmly dealt with

PARIS( Reuters)-Paris has cancelled planned fireworks as well as festivities on the Champs Elysees avenue on New Year's Eve in line with new government rules to prevent the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, BFM TV reported on Saturday. French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Friday major public parties and fireworks would be banned on New Year's Eve and recommended that people-even if vaccinated-take a COVID-19 self-test before getting together for year-end parties.... ( Reporting by

KUALA LUMPUR: All state police chiefs and commissioners have been instructed to conduct more patrols in locations of public interest on New Year's Eve, says Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani. The Inspector-General of Police said the patrols are meant to ensure compliance to the Covid-19 standard operating procedure( SOP) and to prevent people from gathering." We will increase patrols and monitoring throughout New Year's Eve." Patrols will focus on places of public interest especially in areas whe

New Year’s Eve this year could be the mildest on record, with temperatures as high as 15C, the Met Office has said. The previous New Year’s Eve record of 14.8C( 58. 64F) was set in 2011.... However, this year could see that level matched, or even surpassed, in some parts of the UK. Parts of the UK saw a white Christmas this year( PA) Met Office meteorologist Greg Dewhurst said: “ The record is 14.8C on New Year’s Eve and that was in 2011.... Temperatures look like they’ll be 14 to 15C, so it i