Europe: “EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2020 CALLED OFF BECAUSE OF ‘UNCERTAINTY CREATED BY THE SPREAD OF COVID-19’”

Just hours after the cancellation of Glastonbury Festival, the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 has become the latest event to be scrapped due to Covid-19’s ongoing global spread.

A statement was issued today (March 18), with The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) citing “the uncertainty created by the spread of COVID-19 throughout Europe – and the restrictions put in place by the governments of the participating broadcasters and the Dutch authorities” – for the event’s first cancellation in 64 years.