New Year's Eve Countdown in NY Corona Impact on First Virtual Event September 25, 16:00
At Times Square in New York, USA, the annual countdown event for the New Year will be held virtually for the first time.
The organizers attribute it to the spread of the new coronavirus infection.
Times Square, a tourist attraction in central Manhattan, holds a countdown event every year to celebrate the New Year, and at the end of last year, the organizer announced that about 1 million citizens and tourists gathered.
On the 23rd, the organizer announced that this event will be held virtually for the first time due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection.
Details of the event will be announced in the future, but American media reports that it will be the first virtual event in 114 years of history.
In the announcement, the organizer said, "In this era when the world is divided and anxiety is widespread, the world really needs to be one symbolically." It emphasizes the significance of virtual holding that can be participated from anywhere in the world.
In New York, the impact of the spread of the new coronavirus is spreading to various events, such as the cancellation of the Thanksgiving parade in November, which has continued for nearly 100 years.