organisers said the event would be cancelled to do a good job of epidemic prevention and control and to protect the physical health of exhibitors and visitors beijing organisers of chinas biggest car show announced monday the event was the latest to be postponed due to the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus more than 70000 people have been infected by the epidemic which started in central hubei province and has spread across china the outbreak has claimed 1770 lives and prompted the closure of many schools entertainment venues and largescale events the beijing autoshow which is held every two years attracted 820000 people in 2018 from 14 different countries and regions advt this years event was due to take place between april 21 and 30 organisers said the event would be cancelled to do a good job of epidemic prevention and control and to protect the physical health of exhibitors and visitors it is the latest in a series of events that have fallen victim to the spread of the virus both in china and overseas the chinese grand prix scheduled for april 19 was postponed last week because of the continued spread of the deadly coronavirus motorsports governing body fia said other events that have been cancelled or postponed include the maybank championship in malaysia the china open in shenzhen and the trade fair mobile world congress 2020 in spain state media said monday that china may postpone its annual parliament session as the country battles to control the outbreak of the new coronavirus chinas ruling council will deliberate a draft decision over postponing the tenday national peoples congress npc said official news agency xinhua ahead of the meeting due to start on march 5 chinese authorities have placed about 56 million people in hubei and its capital wuhan under quarantine virtually sealing off the province from the rest of the country in an unprecedented effort to contain the virus read alsochinas hubei bans vehicle traffic to curb spread of coronavirusfinance ministry to assess impact of coronavirus outbreak on trade afp published on feb 17 2020 at 0538 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app beijing autoshow coronavirus outbreak beijing auto show 2020 china car show beijing auto show postponement homenewsindustrybeijing autoshow postponed due to coronavirus