Houston rodeo disrupted for second year
The 2021 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was cancelled on Wednesday amid concerns about the safety of large public gatherings.
The rodeo, originally scheduled to run for three weeks beginning in early March, was postponed until May earlier this year. On Wednesday, organisers announced the event – which typically attracts 2.5 million attendees and employs almost 4,000 – would be scrapped. Last year’s rodeo was halted after the first week as the virus began to circulate in the fourth-largest US city.
Associated events including the downtown Houston rodeo parade and the World’s Championship Bar-B-Que Contest also have been cancelled, organisers said.
Number 10 described the move as disappointing , insisting that it was vital the probe happens.
Tory MP and founder of Britain s China Research Group, Tom Tugendhat, accused Beijing of shameful behaviour . He said the failure to investigate puts everyone at risk of a repeat, and particularly those who are closest - the Chinese people.
And Sari Haven, of the Mercator Institute for China Studies think-tank, dismissed the regime s claim that a visa issue led to the team being denied entry. She said: Of course the decoy narrative becomes more difficult to maintain when the WHO team is snooping around.