Corona Virus: Austin Texas Cancels SXSW Music / Tech Festival

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"The cancellation of SXSW comes amid a slate of events that are scrapping their plans as coronavirus continues to spread in the U.S.. As of Friday, 15 deaths had been attributed the virus, with the majority of those being in the area around Seattle.

Earlier on Friday, the Ultra Music Festival in Miami was called off due to coronavirus concerns, with organizers saying they were officially postponing the event for one year.

Numerous Bay Area tech companies have also dropped their event plans over the last week. Facebook cancelled its F8 developers conference, and Nvidia said it wouldn’t hold its GTC conference as previously planned. Both events were to take place at the San Jose Convention Center. Earlier this week, Google cancelled its I/O developers event set to take place in Mountain View, and IBM cancelled its Think 2020 conference that was to be held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, in May."

More events cancelled
 
This is one of the biggest music festivals in the nation.

I wonder if they cancelled because it is also a tech festival and there would be so many people from Seattle and Frisco.

They don't want to import Corona Virus.
 
"While there have been no confirmed cases of the virus in Travis County so far, COVID-19 cases caused by community spread have been diagnosed in communities across the U.S. That and other data related to the outbreak informed the decision to cancel the event, Adler said Friday. Once health officials were consulted, the mayor said he decided to issue the declaration of local disaster."

Why
 
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