GENEVA: The World Economic Forum said Wednesday it would postpone its 2021 Davos summit for several months to reduce any risks to participants from the coronavirus pandemic.
Next year's gathering of the world's political, economic and business elite may not even take place against its traditional idyllic snowy backdrop of the Swiss Alpine village of Davos, the organisation hinted.
Rather than January as usual, the event will take place "early next summer," WEF spokesman Adrian Monck said in a statement. "The decision was not taken easily, since the need for global leaders to come together to design a common recovery path and shape the 'Great Reset' in the post-Covid-19 era is so urgent," he said.
"However, the advice from experts is that we cannot do so safely in January." The announcement came as the death toll in the pandemic passed 820,000 and the number of cases globally since the novel coronavirus first emerged in China late last year approached 24 million, according to an AFP tally based on official sources.
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