Organizers of the World Economic Forum (WEF) said on Dec. 20 that the annual event in Davos, Switzerland, has been postponed until mid-2022 due to ongoing uncertainty over the spread of Omicron. The annual meeting, which was set to take place in late January 2022, has been deferred to early summer, according to Adrian Monck, WEF Managing Director of Public Engagement. “Current pandemic conditions make it extremely difficult to deliver a global in-person meeting,” Monck said. “Despite the meeting’s stringent health protocols, the transmissibility of Omicron and its impact on travel and mobility have made deferral necessary.” Omicron, a highly mutated and more transmissible variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, also known as SARS-CoV-2, has spread fast around the globe after being first detected last month in southern Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Saturday that Omicron cases have now been reported in 89 countries, and that the …