Four days before kick-off, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) put off a ministerial meeting that was to decide on crucial global rules, citing heightened risk after the outbreak of the “particularly transmissible” African variant of the coronavirus. The decision, which came on Friday night, followed a fresh Covid wave in Europe with countries such as Switzerland hit particularly hard.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/wto-puts-off-key-geneva-meet-over-variant-concerns/articleshow/87955160.cms