Topline: The Met Gala may be canceled because of the coronavirus, with a spokesperson saying the museum will “review on a rolling basis which museum events beyond April 3 will be cancelled or postponed.”

• Nancy Chilton, chief external relations officer at the Costume Institute, noted all events before April 3 have already been nixed in response to the disease, and the museum will look at events on a case-by-case after April 3.
• The annual event is historically held at the Met on the first Monday in May, with Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour hosting this year’s event alongside Louis Vuitton creative director Nicolas Ghesquiere, playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, and actors Meryl Streep and Emma Stone.
• This year’s theme is ‘About Time: Fashion and Duration’, inspired by 1992 Sally Potter film Orlando, and will kick off the opening of this year’s fashion exhibition at the Costume Institute, of the same name.

News peg: At least 8.7 million people worldwide have been impacted by event cancellations or delays prompted by the spread of Covid-19, and efforts to contain it. This includes SXSW, Coachella and June’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, also known as the E3 video gaming summit,.” You can keep up with Forbes’ tracker of event cancellations here.

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Tangent: The Met celebrates its 150th year in 2020, with a raft of celebratory events slated to take place across the coming months, including a birthday celebration on April 13th. It remains to be seen whether they will all go ahead, as the Met says it has canceled some public events, limited staff travel and is working with the CDC and health officials in New York.

Key background: The annual ball is a fundraiser for the Met Museum’s Costume Institute, with tickets going for $35,000 this year, according to The Cut. The gala’s red carpet fashion show arguably one of the most anticipated and eagerly watched on the fashion calendar, with outfits and themes often entering the annals of fashion history. A 2016 documentary titled the First Monday In May offers a front row look at the work that went into organising the 2015 event organising the mammoth event. 

One Fashion Week attendee is speaking out after being diagnosed with the Coronavirus.

As health concerns continue to spread throughout much of the world, socialite Nga Nguyen has decided to share her personal health journey.

After being a guest at the Gucci show during Milan Fashion Week and the Saint Laurent show at Paris Fashion Week, Nga went to the doctor’s office for a routine visit when she coughed. The 27-year-old was tested for the Coronovirus and the next day was told she was positive.

“I was really confused at first,” she told the New York Times. “You think, how and when did it happen?”

Nga continued, “People said I flew home, that I already knew when I was at the shows—neither of which is true—that I am spoiled, that because I showed my cleavage in one picture, that’s why the virus was attracted to me, that it’s time for greedy fashion people to stop and think.”

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Nga has been treated in a Europe hospital and is hoping that her next tests on Monday will reveal that she is virus free.moveclose

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Until then, Nga is trying to recover without any social media distractions. She deleted her account because of “messages that threatened both myself and my family.”

Once she gets better, however, Nga hopes to be active online again. “Once I’m transitioning back to normal life after the recovery, I will bring it back,” she said.

As many pop culture fans, the Coronavirus has had a huge impact on Hollywood and the entertainment industry.

Just this week alone, major music festivals including Coachella and Stagecoach have been postponed. In addition, many talk shows including The View, The Wendy Williams Show, TODAY and LIVE with Kelly and Ryan have have decided not to have a studio audience as a precaution.

As for the 2020 Met Gala coming this May, no changes have been announced as of now.