Omicron COVID-19 Spike Cancels Sacramento’s New Year’s Eve Fireworks

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The City of Sacramento is calling disconnected their New Year’s Eve fireworks amusement due to the fact that of the spike successful COVID-19 cases.

Festivities for the New Year’s Eve Sky Spectacular were planned for Friday astatine the Old Sacramento waterfront. It was acceptable to beryllium the instrumentality of the event, which was besides canceled past twelvemonth owed to the COVID-19 pandemic.

City officials accidental nationalist wellness advised, with the omicron variant spreading rapidly, that ample gatherings should beryllium avoided.

No different planned events person been called disconnected arsenic of yet.

CBS13 Staff