The Juno Awards, Canada's most prominent music awards, have been cancelled in the wake of concerns over the coronavirus outbreak.

Organizers made the announcement Thursday morning.

Junos-related events had been slated to kick off in Saskatoon later Thursday in the run-up to Sunday's televised gala at the SaskTel Centre.

In the past few weeks, a growing number of conferences, festivals, movie premieres, concert tours, trade shows and other entertainment industry gatherings have been cancelled as countries around the world report rising numbers of people testing positive for the new coronavirus.

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization officially labelled the outbreak a pandemic. As of Thursday morning, there were 119 presumptive and confirmed cases reported in Canada, with one death.