With considerations in regards to the unfold of coronavirus within the U.S. shutting down companies and canceling major events like E3, Coachella, and SXSW, many are involved in regards to the standing of San Diego Comedian-Con. As of the tip of March, there are at the moment no plans to cancel San Diego Comedian-Con 2020.
Comedian-Con Worldwide informed ABC 10Information earlier within the month that there have been no plans to cancel both of its two main, upcoming occasions, WonderCon Anaheim and San Diego Comedian-Con. That assertion was ultimately walked again on March 12 when CCI postponed WonderCon Anaheim as a consequence of restrictions on massive gatherings within the state of California.
“To guard public well being and sluggish the speed of transmission of COVID-19, the California Division of Public Well being introduced a advice that gatherings and occasions of greater than 250 individuals ought to both be postponed or canceled,” the up to date assertion learn. “Comedian-Con (organizer of WonderCon) will abide by this advice. Subsequently WonderCon Anaheim, scheduled for April 10-12, 2020 in Anaheim, California, will probably be postponed till a later date. We are going to start processing refunds within the coming days.”
With regard to San Diego Comedian-Con, CCI added that the group remains to be monitoring the scenario and has not made any official choices about whether or not the occasion, which is meant to happen on the finish of July, will transfer ahead as deliberate.
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With San Diego Comedian-Con nonetheless months away, there’s loads of time for CCI to attend and see how the present well being disaster unfolds earlier than making a ultimate resolution about whether or not to cancel the occasion or go on as deliberate. If the present well being danger to con-goers doesn’t enhance, a last-minute cancellation might nonetheless be within the playing cards.
In response to the Facilities for Illness Management, coronavirus is unfold from shut person-to-person contact, with shut being outlined as six ft or much less. The illness additionally travels by way of respiratory droplets that kind when an contaminated particular person coughs or sneezes. The CDC recommends that everybody take precaution by washing their arms and utilizing hand sanitizer with at the very least 60% alcohol, and that everybody keep away from touching their face with unwashed arms. In response to The New York Times, over 140,000 instances have been confirmed in the US, and at the very least 2,000 individuals within the U.S. have died from the virus.
San Diego Comedian-Con is at the moment scheduled to happen July 23-26.
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