With shocking development in the severity of wide-spread community infection of Covid-19 and unprecedented Class-3 alert from Government Authority, and taking into consideration the huge uncertainties of vaccination towards herd immunity, the Steering Committee has no other alternative but to cancel the Joint Symposium of eMDC-2021 and ISSM-2021 this year.

This sudden interruption mercilessly drains all efforts thus far pitched in by the Organization Committee and the goodwill and generous contributions served by our sponsors, not to mention the hard efforts and countless hours invested by the authors preparing their technical papers. It is also a great setback for all our partners at SEMI, GSA, ISSM, AIMS, IMPACT and IEEE. The Steering Committee truly regrets such a painful decision and shall continue to monitor the situation for future events of the eMDC-symposia.