The Mobile World Congress Organizing Committee has a limited number of visitors, but still has a personal presence.
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last year Mobile World Congress The exhibition was the first major technical event to be canceled due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, and diversified with this year: a smaller Shanghai version of the MWC was introduced and the main event in Barcelona was postponed to June. It is hoped that by then at least the pandemic will be brought under control to the point that, with a limited number of visitors and a negative test, 40-50,000 people will be able to participate in it instead of the usual crowd of 110,000. GSMA Limited Executive Director, John Hoffman Speak in front of the inaugural MWC station in Shanghai.
Since the Chinese infection data is so low, the MWC will be holding there in person between February 23-25, that is, next week, limiting the total number of three-day visitors to 20,000. Mobile World Congress Shanghai will be a kind of test and experience event before the Catalan Summer Expo, which can only be entered within 72 hours with negative test, in non-contact form. It will also be possible to ask organizers to take a coronavirus test so that the exhibition takes place in a bubble where the virus is not present. If situation permits, MWC Barcelona will take place between June 28 and July 1.