The organizers of Computex, TAITRA, have announced that they have officially cancelled the 2020 edition of Computex, which was scheduled to take place this September.
Back in March, as the coronavirus pandemic was still in an early stage, Computex organizers pushed their trade show from June to late September. Today they announced that despite Taiwan’s low number of COVID-19 cases, and with strict travel restrictions still in place for many countries, they’ve decided to cancel this year’s event.
It is now rescheduled for June 1st – 5th 2021. Originally it was slated for June 2020 this year, and then postponed till September. Now, Computex organizers have officially cancelled this PC industry-related tech expo.
To quote the press release:
” The outbreak of pandemic Covid-19 has disturbed all major economic sectors of the whole world. Many countries have imposed travel restrictions to help curb the spread of Covid-19. COMPUTEX stakeholders, including international exhibitors, visitors and media, may not be able to join the show consequently. Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and Taipei Computer Association (TCA), the organizers of COMPUTEX, therefore decided to reschedule COMPUTEX to 2021.
As of June 11, more than 7,350,000 people have been diagnosed across 187 countries worldwide, affecting the economy, trade, transportation, convention and tourism. With credit to Taiwan’s government got a head start on smashing the virus, Taiwan has only 443 confirmed cases. Accordingly, how Taiwan makes efforts against Covid-19 has been reported by a lot of international medias, such as CNN, Bloomberg and so on “.
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There are many viewpoints on this Covid-19 and the real impact that is having. There are approximately 7.5 billion people on this Earth and around 7.5 million cases of reported coronavirus. 1 in1 thousand reported cases and that’s only a fraction of the real infections because some of the people have been infected but show little to no signs of it.
A vaccine is in the works and will probably be available this year after clinical trials and approved by the FDA.
Maybe early next year but believe that the best and brightest scientists are working on this.
Welcome to the New World Order.
Hello 64K, please can you explain me the last part of your comment ? I’m really curious to get some good news about this whole COVID-19 situation.
What do you mean by, “best and brightest scientists are working on this” ? If a vaccine is available at the end of this year, then why will the scientists work on another vaccine next year ?
Or, you meant to say the vaccine which might come out this year is only a temporary cure for this virus ? Any idea when they are going to release a vaccine which actually works, and also available Globally, not just the US or UK ? I think China already knows an elixir for this virus ?
Some people claim this virus was made in the LAB, what the hell ?? ? ?
Scientists are proposing AstraZeneca as a vaccine for Covid-19. It’s currently in clinical trials but they are thinking it will work. Hundreds of millions of doses are already being produced. It may not work but it’s all we have right now.
The virus was made in a Chinese Lab from what I can tell. Early reports are that Chinese hoarded the respirators because they knew what was coming.
Thanks ! I hope this AstraZeneca’s stuff actually works. How did they made a virus so dangerous is just beyond me ! Some sources claim it came from an Animal Market in WUHAN !!
Don’t know whom to believe or trust. Sometimes we get conflicting news ! But I think someone planned to destroy this world, and the entire human race, hence this lab made virus.
400 million doses have been secured so far and 1 billion doses are on the way. 30,000 people are being subjected as trials for this drug.
We are going to beat this thing and get back to normalcy.
Cool. Thanks m8 ! I hope you are correct. Lets PRAY for all of us !
**fingers crossed**.