Het leek erop dat de London Bookfair ondanks de vele afzeggingen van grote partijen doorgang zou vinden. Organisator Reed Exhibitions heeft echter toch besloten de beurs te cancelen.
In een statement zegt de organisatie:
'Reed Exhibitions has today announced that The London Book Fair 2020, scheduled to take place at Olympia, London, from 10 to 12 March will be cancelled following the escalation of COVID-19 Coronavirus in Europe.
'The effects, actual and projected, of Coronavirus are becoming evident across all aspects of our lives here in the UK and across the world, with many of our participants facing travel restrictions. We have been following UK government guidelines and working with the rolling advice from the public health authorities and other organisations, and so it is with reluctance that we have taken the decision not to go ahead with this year’s event.
