Europe 1 with AFP 9:44 p.m., January 05, 2022
The Grammy Awards ceremony, scheduled to be held Jan. 31 in Los Angeles, has been postponed indefinitely due to "uncertainties surrounding the Omicron variant," organizers said on Wednesday.
In addition, the American Sundance Film Festival will be entirely virtual.
The Grammy Awards have been postponed indefinitely due to "uncertainties surrounding the Omicron variant" while the Sundance Film Festival has decided to be completely virtual again this year, organizers of the events said on Wednesday. two events.
"Organizing the show on January 31 is simply too risky," said the Academy of the American record, adding that a new date for the night of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles will be announced "soon".
One million infections in 24 hours in the USA
Omicron has become the ultra-majority variant of Covid-19 in the United States, where more than a million new cases of contamination were recorded in 24 hours last Monday, a record.
Citing "surprisingly high transmission rates of the Omicron variant", the organizers of the Sundance festival which was to open on January 20 in Utah (west), for their part, had to resolve to abandon the planned events in the flesh and blood. bone.
The festival will therefore take place again "this year online", they deplore, regretting that they cannot implement the "hybrid experience" that they had prepared.