Zurich  — The World Economic Forum will be held in Singapore instead of Switzerland in 2021 as the Covid-19 pandemic would make it difficult to ensure the health and safety of participants in Europe, WEF organisers said on Monday.

“The World Economic Forum will convene the special annual meeting 2021 in Singapore to May 13-16. It will return to Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, for the annual meeting 2022,” the organisers said in a statement, released a day earlier than planned...

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