San Francisco Cancels New Year's Eve Fireworks Show Due to Surging COVID-19 Cases

The New Year's Eve fireworks amusement successful San Francisco has been canceled owed to the ongoing surge successful COVID-19 cases, the metropolis announced Tuesday.

"While we are each understandably anxious to ringing successful a caller twelvemonth with San Francisco’s customary New Year’s Eve fireworks show, we indispensable stay vigilant successful doing each we tin to halt the dispersed of the COVID-19 Omicron variant,” Mayor London Breed said successful a statement. "Thanks to our worker vaccine mandate, our nationalist information workers are well-protected against COVID, but they inactive indispensable instrumentality each precautions to assistance bounds the spread. By canceling the New Year’s Eve fireworks amusement we are reducing everyone’s vulnerability to COVID-19, portion ensuring continuity of citywide nationalist information operations.”

The fireworks amusement on the Embarcadero usually draws thousands of attendees.