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Australia’s New Year’s Eve may be a damp squib as revellers make their own Covid decisions

People wind back plans as epidemiologists warn big night could become a super-spreader event

Officially the new year parties in Australia’s largest cities will go ahead as planned, despite Covid case numbers exploding around the country.

But the night seems set to be much quieter than usual, as individuals dampen their plans, rethinking trips to the usual hotspots in Sydney and Melbourne, and cancelling larger parties or putting caps on numbers, amid warnings from epidemiologists that the night could become a super-spreader event.

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