There will be no civic memorial service in Christchurch next week to mark the 11th anniversary of the February 22, 2011, quake that killed 185 people.
Mayor Lianne Dalziel said the service will not take place due to the restrictions in place to limit the spread of the Omicron Covid-19 variant.
"This year, due to the public health measures that are in place to help limit the spread of Covid-19, there will be no such public gathering," Dalziel said.
"Instead it will be up to each of us to find our own way to mark the anniversary and to remember the people and places we lost."
Dalziel will lay a wreath at the Memorial Wall at Oi Manawa Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial on behalf of the city. The names of the 185 people who lost their lives in the earthquake will be read aloud.