“Organize the show on January 31 features too much risk,” explains the American disk academy. A new date for the Grammy Awards party scheduled for Los Angeles will be announced “soon”.
Le Monde with AFP
The 2022 season of cinematographic and musical prices promises to be once again linked by the sanitary crisis. The Grammy Awards awards ceremony was postponed Sine Die because of the “uncertainties surrounding the Omicron variant”, while the Sundance Film Festival decided to be still this year entirely virtual, announced, Wednesday 5 January, the organizers of the two events.
“Organize the show on January 31 is simply too much risk,” explains in a statement the US disk academy, adding that a new date for the Grammy Awards party scheduled for Los Angeles will be announced “soon” . The day before, the organizers of the Golden Globes decided to maintain their award ceremony scheduled Sunday, January 9, but no public or television retransmission.
Omicron became the ultra-majority Variant in the United States, where more than one million new contamination cases were recorded in twenty-four hours last Monday, the highest level ever recorded.
citing “surprisingly high transmission rates of the Omicron variant”, the organizers of the Sundance Film Festival, which was to open on January 20 in UTAH (West), have had to resolve to give up The events planned in flesh and bone. The festival will take place again “this year online, they deplore, regretting not being able to implement” the hybrid experience “they had prepared.