Conferences cancelled due to Coronavirus; Details about the major events cancelled

COVID-19, which is w famously kwn as Coronavirus, started in China.  It is w reportedly spreading across world. significant increase in number of deaths and affected patients has become a matter of international concern. Numerous companies and countries around globe have started postponing and cancelling major events to avoid any adverse health effects that may occur due to COVID-19 outbreak. 

Some of major conferences cancelled due to Coronavirus were of great importance for many big organisations and several countries. While many of events were postponed, some were carried out online. Here is a list of some of many world-wide events cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak.

Events and Conferences cancelled due to coronavirus

Google events cancelled due to COVID-19

tech supergiant cancelled its two major meets that were of high importance to company. in-person meet of its Google I/O developers conference is amongst recent-most cancelled conferences of Google. popular organisation also had to postpone its Cloud Next conference and later anunced that it would be held online between April 6 and April 8, 2020.

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World Bank and International Monetary Fund spring meetings

annual garing of World Bank and IMF in Washington DC will be held virtually instead of in person. decision was taken to avoid any health-related problems due to dangerous virus.

American Physical Society Conference

American Physical Society conference is considered to be amongst biggest physics conferences in world. garing was supposed to take place in Colorado from March 2 to March 6. conference got cancelled a day before it was set to take place.

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Facebook conferences cancelled due to Coronavirus

Facebook’s developer's conference:  social media supergiant cancelled its annual F8 developer's conference due to avoid any infections to its members. conference was scheduled to take place in California on May 5 and May 6.

Facebook’s Global Marketing Summit: Global marketing summit of Facebook was cancelled and company said that decision was made in "an abundance of caution.” It was scheduled to begin in San Francisco on March 9, 2020.

ASEAN meeting

According to reports, US President Donald Trump postponed a meeting with Association of Souast Asian Nations which includes leaders of 10 member states. meet was supposed to take place on March 14 in Las Vegas.

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Religious pilgrims in Saudi Arabia

Saudi government temporarily banned foreign pilgrims from entering country to avoid any health tolls that might come due to COVID-19. decision was taken to protect Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina.

Dalai Lama’s events

most-followed Buddhist spiritual leader, Dalai Lama postponed an ordination ceremony for new monks. He also cancelled all his public duties until furr tice owing to recent Coronavirus outbreak.

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