The largest consumer electronics fair in the world, CES, is still scheduled to be held in a mixed format (virtual and face-to-face) in Las Vegas (Nevada, USA) starting this Wednesday 5, but the strong incidence of omicron forced to reduce its duration from four to three days.
As an “added precautionary measure,” CES will now run from January 5 to 7, instead of until January 8 as originally planned, and the virtual part of the event is expected to become even more important, given that many of large companies have canceled their physical presence.
Thus, some of the most prominent exhibitors such as Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, Google, Meta (Facebook), AMD, General Motors and BMW will not have representation in person in Las Vegas, but it is expected that they will maintain their virtual events.
Even so, from CES they assure that 2,200 companies – mostly small and medium-sized ones – still plan to be physically in the convention center and the casinos of Las Vegas.
Before the pandemic, CES gathered more than 10,000 people annually in the city of the game, but last year it changed to a completely virtual format.
The United States is experiencing a record of COVID-19 infections with the arrival of the omicron variant, with about 400,000 a day in the last week, and the county where Las Vegas (Clark) is located is an area of high transmission of the virus.
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