World Economic Forum annual meeting postponed again, now scheduled for August

(CNN) – The annual World Economic Forum, due to take place in Singapore in May, has been pushed back again.

The event will now convene from August 17 to 20.

“Although the World Economic Forum and Government of Singapore remain confident of the measures in place to ensure a safe and effective meeting, and local transmission of COVID-19 in Singapore remains at negligible levels, the change to the meeting’s timing reflects the international challenges in containing the pandemic,” the World Economic Forum (WEF) said in a news release.

WEF added that the pushback is a result of the current global travel restrictions that are making planning difficult for an in-person meeting in the first half of the year.

Last week during the virtual Davos event, WEF expressed confidence that the in person meeting in Singapore would go ahead as planned in May.

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