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Berlin (dpa) - The New Year's Eve party at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is canceled due to Corona, the ZDF show is not: The television station is planning the New Year's Eve countdown with Andrea Kiewel and Johannes B. Kerner as a live broadcast as usual.
So far, Peter Maffay, Álvaro Soler, Höhner and the British singer-songwriter Tom Gregory have been announced in the music program.
"It is clear that the focus is on the viewers on the screens who are supposed to watch the countdown from home," said a ZDF spokesman on Monday.
Because of the corona pandemic, Germany's largest New Year's party will be canceled, as Senator for Economic Affairs Ramona Pop (Greens) had previously made clear in the “Berliner Morgenpost”.
«There will be no big parties and family gatherings.
Otherwise we will face the next wave of infections in February. "
According to «Tagesspiegel», the organizer Maiko Heinrich called on people to stay at home: «We say very clearly: People, please don't even set off.
You are warm at home and you are safe. "
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Hundreds of thousands of people have regularly come to the traditional party at the Berlin landmark in recent years.
Outdoor events with more than 100 participants are currently prohibited in the capital according to the Infection Protection Ordinance.
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