Jet lag requires, some are already in 2021. And among the first to celebrate the New Year, several territories, such as New Zealand or New Caledonia, taste a feeling of normalcy since the coronavirus is not very present there.

The New Year's Eve party is therefore done without barrier gestures.

Australia is not so lucky.

As midnight approaches, some French people around the world are already in 2021. Taking advantage of being in regions spared by the coronavirus, they celebrate New Year's Eve almost as usual, with effusions and without respecting barrier gestures.

All keep in mind the health situation in France, however, and have a thought for those who, unlike them, cannot celebrate the New Year. All the more reason to celebrate, on behalf of those who cannot.  

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"We are far from all that"

"We had to party for others," explains this party animal who benefits, in New Zealand, that the epidemic has been eradicated.

Large crowds were thus able to gather in Auckland to observe the fireworks.

And this gives rise to festive scenes that we would not dare to imagine in France.

"At home we may be 5,000 to 6,000 people: no mask, the hugs of the New Year, there are no barrier gestures", he says.

This does not prevent him from being united.

"We really hope 2021 will be better than 2020." 

In New Caledonia also the new year has already been celebrated.

The archipelago has almost completely escaped the coronavirus at the cost of drastic measures and a border closure.

"I should have returned to the mainland this year to see my family and it could not be done, and we do not know when it can be done", laments a resident.

"We have a thought for them but we are far from it all. We are outside, the weather is very beautiful, very hot. There is music, fireworks. We hugged each other, we hugged each other. the wind is blowing as usual in fact ", far from the cold and the winter blues felt in France. 

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Thwarted festivities in Sydney

Although the Pacific has been largely spared, not all countries have celebrated New Year's Eve in the same carefree manner.

In Sydney, Australia's largest city, the famous New Year's Eve fireworks display was fired over the Bay, but with almost no spectators appearing after a recent outbreak of contamination in the north of the city which totals some 150 cases.

Even the plan to allow 5,000 people, working on the front lines in the fight against the epidemic, to attend to thank them for their efforts has been abandoned.

Most residents will therefore have to content themselves with watching it on television in the presence of a number of guests limited to five.