Pandemic Forces 4-Month Delay in MWC Barcelona as Physical Show

GSMA postponed MWC Barcelona to June 28-July 1 from early March, and still plans to hold MWC LA as a physical show in October 2021. Delaying the physical MWC Barcelona by about four months will enable GSMA to “contend with external circumstances” of COVID-19, it said. The show will have “virtual elements to complement the overwhelming demand to convene physically,” it said. MWC 2020 in February was the world’s first major trade show to fall to the pandemic (see 2002120056 or 2002120065). Johns Hopkins University ranked Spain eighth in the world Thursday in confirmed coronavirus cases.