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Despite the fact that many companies, including Apple, Netflix, Amazon and Facebook have reportedly pulled out of South by Southwest amid the coronavirus outbreak, the annual tech, film and music conference/festival, public health officials from the host city Austin did not cancel the event until Friday afternoon, March 06
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SXSW was scheduled to take place from March 13 to March 22 and normally attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors, with the tech convention alone pulling 74,000 attendants last year.
As the following chart shows, SXSW was only the latest of major events to be cacelled globally. In recent weeks, many international trade shows and conferences have been cancelled or postponed and it wouldn’t be a surprise if more events fall victim to the coronavirus in the weeks/months to come.
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