NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday put off the International Indian Ocean Science Conference (IIOSC)-2020 scheduled to be held from March 16 to 20 in Goa in view of the coronavirus outbreak.

India had earlier postponed the 36th edition of International Geological Congress , scheduled from March 2 to 8 in Greater Noida . The Navy on Tuesday had postponed its largest-ever multilateral ‘Milan’ exercise off the coast of Visakhapatnam scheduled from March 18.

Though the government had rescheduled the conference for November 9-14, new dates for IIOSC are yet to be finalised. The organiser of the event cited a Unesco ’s advisory saying the virus spread was a cause for major distress among conference participants.

