State Cancels Fireworks Plan for Front Line Workers Over ‘Health Risk’

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House during the midnight display during New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney, Australia on Jan. 1, 2020. Hanna Lassen/Getty Images

Plans to host front line COVID-19 workers on the foreshore for Sydney’s 7-minute New Year’s Eve fireworks have been cancelled over safety fears.

The government had allocated a “green zone” around the harbour foreshore including the Opera House just for the nurses, doctors, and others invited to attend from across the state.