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World Economic Forum Cancels 2021 Annual Meeting In Singapore Due To COVID-19
World Economic Forum founder and CEO said that it was a difficult decision, but ultimately the health and safety of everyone concerned was the highest priority.
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The World Economic Forum on Monday announced that it has cancelled its summer annual meeting scheduled to be held in Singapore this year 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The meeting, instead, will take place in the first quarter of 2022, the forum announced in a statement. Although the date and final location will be determined next year. Citing the rising cases of the COVID-19 pandemic, and civil disturbances across many countries, the WEF said that it will not convene the world leaders, business, and government institutions for the global event due to tragic circumstances. The meeting has already been postponed twice and the forum decided last year in October to move location from Swiss Alps, Davos, Switzerl
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World Economic Forum cancels meeting scheduled to be held in Singapore in August
Organisers cited the uncertain travel outlook and new variants of Covid-19, among others, as reasons.ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG
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WEF cancels 2021 annual meeting, says next summit in 1st half of 2022
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Last Updated: May 17, 2021, 08:22 PM IST
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This year s Davos summit was originally scheduled for January 2021, but was later moved to a different location in Switzerland, Lucerne, and then to Singapore with an August 2021 schedule.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unravel in various parts of the country, the World Economic Forum on Monday announced the cancellation of its high-profile annual meeting for 2021 after postponing it at least twice along with two changes in venue.
The next annual meeting will now take place in the first half of 2022, while the location and date would be determined after assessing the situation later this summer, said the Geneva-based organisation that has been hosting a yearly congregation of the rich and powerful from across the world in Swiss ski resort town of Davos for 50 years.
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File photo of a logo of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting as pictured on a window in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan 21, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Denis Balibouse)
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SINGAPORE: The World Economic Forum s (WEF) Special Annual Meeting in Singapore has been cancelled, three months before it was scheduled to take place in August.
Announcing this on Monday (May 17), the WEF cited global uncertainties caused by COVID-19.
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Advertisement Regretfully, the tragic circumstances unfolding across geographies, an uncertain travel outlook, differing speeds of vaccination rollout and the uncertainty around new variants combine to make it impossible to realise a global meeting with business, government and civil society leaders f