San Francisco, January 1, : .As Omicron Covid-19 cases continue to rise, the Consumer Technology Association announced (CTA), that it would shorten CES 2022 by an hour, and end the show on January 7 rather than January 8. Over the past few weeks, a lot of big companies, including BMW, Intel and AMD, GM.Google, T-Mobile.Amazon.Microsoft.
CTA president Gary Shapiro stated in a statement that CES was the most important technology conference in the world.
We are reducing the duration of the event to just three days.
Additionally, we have implemented comprehensive safety measures that ensure the safety and well-being of everyone attending and participating in the event.
After reporting nearly half a million cases of positive Covid-19 infections, the US has set a new daily record.
This was due to the spread of Omicron variants throughout the US.
According to the New York Times, there were 488,000 cases in America on Wednesday.
BMW stated in a statement that it had made to The Verge, “Out of an abundance caution, BMW will transfer all media activities planned at CES to a fully-online programme from Germany on Jan 5.”
Mercedes-Benz, a fellow German carmaker, will also skip the event.
TechCrunch was informed by the CTA that more than 2,200 companies have been confirmed as participating in-person in CES 2022 in Las Vegas.
Mike Sievert from T-Mobile, CEO, has announced that his company will not be at the largest electronic show in the world next month.
This event will be the world’s largest tech conference and showcase first-time innovation in Blockchain-based non-fungible tokens (NFTs), remote healthcare solutions, self driving cars, gaming, space tech, and food.
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