As many airsoft retailers are shifting to online sales only and minimising person-to-person contact to follow "social distancing" measures, Airsoft Atlanta assures customers that they remain open but recommends that business be conducted online and customers can then pick up orders if they do not for deliveries... "COVID19 update: We are shipping online orders fast and on schedule. Please order online if at all possible.

Vipex Airsoft explains why he cannot go to the Milsim West event called "Saratov Insurgency" due to take place this weekend. Eventually Milsim West also decided to cancel this event... "So with news constantly coming out I’ll update the description as quickly as I can. So In this video I go over how the DoD travel ban affected me not going to the MilSim West event this weekend Saratov Insurgency.

One of the biggest airsoft events in the world, Border War Milsim, announced last week that they have postponed the event to 11-13 September as the Czech government have been limiting gatherings due to Covid-19 fears as the Czech Republic/Czechia is experiencing a rise of infected cases. It is originally to be held on 15-19 April 2020, which many expect to be the height of the Covid-19 in many areas in Europe.

Here is the statement of the organisers:

With Europe now being the new centre of the Covid-19 pandemic, governments are implementing measures to mitigate the spread of virus and are getting even more drastic such as cancelling large gatherings and public events. In terms of airsoft, we have not heard of any large-scale airsoft event being called off by their organisers, until now --- Berget Events announced that they are cancelling Berget 18: Broken Arrow.

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, which we just call E3 nowadays, have been cancelled by the organisers as cases of Covid-19 in the U.S. increase and the Federal government scrambling to mitigate the spread as their Orange leader messed up in their response, and have now declared a national emergency. We have been looking forward to the announcements of the big name companies on their upcoming releases for the gaming industry.

Statement from the organisers below:

Vega Force Company (VFC), the Taiwan-based airsoft company, is a regular exhibitor at the IWA Outdoor Classics in Germany. However, for this year, the company has decided to pull out of the trade fair for safety and health reasons due to the Coronavirus NCOV-2019 (new name: Covid-19) that is affecting a good number of countries in Asia and has already caused over a thousand deaths in China.