{"id":2421,"date":"2020-03-14T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adventure-overland-show.com\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2020-03-14T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T16:30:00","slug":"covid-19-virus-update-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventure-overland-show.com\/es\/2020\/03\/14\/covid-19-virus-update-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Virus Covid-19 \u2013 actualizaci\u00f3n n.\u00b0 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Regarding the concerns about the Covid-19 virus, the following is the first of an ongoing series of updates by the event organisers to keep you informed:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Current advice from the government\u2019s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Valance, is that <em>\u201cgatherings of people do not pose an increased medical risk.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that there are currently over 10,000 people undiagnosed with the virus in the UK. It is <u>not<\/u> possible to suspend potential contamination via people working (factories, offices, etc.) buying essentials, money transactions, public transport etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The government\u2019s concern regarding large events is that they may present a drain on public resources such as police and NHS cover. Our event has its own private security and medical cover, so this does not apply.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seems that on Monday 16<sup>th<\/sup> March 2020 the government will announce a ban on \u201cmass gatherings\u201d. What this actually means is conjecture at this time, but as of this minute \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>We have no plans to cancel the event at this time.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The safety of the public and our staff is of course our number one priority so we will continue to review the advice from public health bodies and the government.<\/p>\n<p>Like other companies in this sector, we support the position taken by the Global Association for the Exhibition Industry* and remain committed to delivering our events in a safe environment.<\/p>\n<p>We are working closely with the venue, taking whatever steps necessary to ensure the safety of the public and staff alike.<\/p>\n<p>So while this is a developing situation, unless we are otherwise advised, <strong>both editions of the event will take place as scheduled<\/strong> \u2013 \u2018Spring\u2019 [25-26 April 2020] and \u2018Late Summer\u2019 [19-20 September 2020].<\/p>\n<p>This statement will be emailed to the 250+ trade stands, attractions and clubs booked in to date (the event has doubled in size from last year!!!), but please share\/post this statement within forums and social media pages you frequent.<\/p>\n<p>USEFUL LINKS:<br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ufi.org\/2020\/02\/19\/joint-ufi-siso-statement-on-the-coronavirus-and-the-global-exhibitions-and-events-industry\">http:\/\/blog.ufi.org\/2020\/02\/19\/joint-ufi-siso-statement-on-the-coronavirus-and-the-global-exhibitions-and-events-industry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/topical-events\/coronavirus-covid-19-uk-government-response\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/topical-events\/coronavirus-covid-19-uk-government-response<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/coronavirus-covid-19\">https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/coronavirus-covid-19<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/health-topics\/coronavirus\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/health-topics\/coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the concerns about the Covid-19 virus, the following is the first of an ongoing series of updates by the event organisers to keep you informed:- &nbsp; Current advice from the government\u2019s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Valance, is that \u201cgatherings of people do not pose an increased medical risk.\u201d It is estimated that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa4eiK-D3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventure-overland-show.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventure-overland-show.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventure-overland-show.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventure-overland-show.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventure-overland-show.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adventure-overland-show.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"https:\/\/adventure-overland-show.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventure-overland-show.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventure-overland-show.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventure-overland-show.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}