“This is despite the excellent support provided by the Government of Singapore,” WEF adds.
The World Economic Forum has cancelled its Special Annual Meeting scheduled to take place in August 17 - 20, amid growing number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in recent days in Singapore and also across the region.
“Regretfully, the tragic circumstances unfolding across geographies, an uncertain travel outlook, differing speeds of vaccination rollout and the uncertainty around new variants combine to make it impossible to realise a global meeting with business, government and civil society leaders from all over the world at the scale which was planned,” says the WEF in a statement.
