{"id":100574,"date":"2021-12-24T07:32:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T12:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=100574"},"modified":"2021-12-24T07:32:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T12:32:11","slug":"vaccination-proof-masks-to-mark-times-square-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/12\/24\/vaccination-proof-masks-to-mark-times-square-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccination Proof, Masks to Mark Times Square New Year\u2019s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 The New Year\u2019s Eve celebration in Times Square on December 31 will require full vaccination and mask wearing, according to a press release from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.<\/p>\n

It will also be a lot smaller.<\/p>\n

As opposed to normal years when 58,000 gather to watch the famous Ball Drop, this year\u2019s crowd will be limited to 15,000.<\/p>\n

Anyone over 5 years old will have to show proof of having received a full dose of a vaccination from among the Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca\/Oxford, Sinopharm or Sinovac vaccines.<\/p>\n

Revelers will not be allowed to start gathering until 3 p.m, which is later than normal.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Yorkers have stepped up tremendously over the past year\u2014we are leading the way on vaccinations, we have reopened safely, and every day we work toward building a recovery for all of us,\u201d said de Blasio. \u201cThere is a lot to celebrate, and these additional safety measures will keep the fully vaccinated crowd safe and healthy as we ring in the New Year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event will be webcast.<\/p>\n

The announcement comes as the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus continues to spread around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 The New Year\u2019s Eve celebration in Times Square on December 31 will require full vaccination and mask wearing, according to a press release from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. It will also be a lot smaller. As opposed to normal years when 58,000 gather to watch the famous Ball Drop, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100577,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100574\/revisions\/100577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}