The World Economic Forum scheduled for January 17-21 in Davos, Switzerland, was “postponed“Due to the omicron variant of COVID-19, organizers reported in a statement on Monday.
The meeting that mixes the world of business, politics and diplomacy should be held in early summer (boreal), organizers said. Last year this forum had to be canceled due to the pandemic.
The WEF (according to its acronym in English) decided anyway to organize a series of online sessions called “the state of the world“, Which should allow”formulate solutions to the world’s most pressing problems”.
“Current pandemic conditions make hosting a global in-person meeting very difficult”, Underlines the statement.
Since its first appearance in South Africa in November, the omicron variant of the COVID-19 It has been identified in dozens of countries, forcing several of them to reimpose travel restrictions and other measures.
Although it does not appear to be more severe than the delta variant – which is still the dominant strain – omicron appears to have a worrying resistance to vaccines and greater transmissibility, according to preliminary data.
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