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One by one, from the world’s premier basketball league and international concerts to sprawling festivals, institutions have faced the same hard question: Is a public gathering worth the risk of spreading the new coronavirus?

The Tokyo Olympics this week joined dozens of organizations, gatherings and cultural events that have changed their plans in the last few weeks, as the World Health Organization formally declared the coronavirus a pandemic, and the number of people who have been sickened or died has mounted.

The Trump administration has recommended closing schools and avoiding groups of more than 10 people as well as discretionary travel, bars, restaurants and food courts. State and local officials have imposed additional restrictions.

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Some have held out amid the growing number of cancellations. The WWE said WrestleMania was still on, just with no audience. It will be streamed live on April 5.

The International Olympic Committee said in a joint statement with the Prime Minister’s Office in Japan that the Olympic Games, which had been scheduled to start in Tokyo in July, would be rescheduled to a date “beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021.”

The N.B.A. suspended its season, shortly after a March 11 game between the Utah Jazz and the Oklahoma City Thunder was halted just before tip-off. A player for the Jazz tested positive for the coronavirus.

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The Kentucky Derby, the first jewel in horse racing’s Triple Crown, said late Monday that it was breaking with the tradition of holding the race on the first Saturday in May and would hold it on Sept. 5 instead.

The Indianapolis 500, which is held annually over the Memorial Day weekend and was originally scheduled for May 24, has been rescheduled for Sunday, Aug. 23.

Major League Soccer suspended its season for at least 30 days, beginning March 12, less than two weeks after matches began on Feb. 29. The season is scheduled to run through Oct. 4. The National Hockey League also said it would pause its season. Major League Baseball pushed back its season opening by at least two weeks and suspended spring training games.

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Wimbledon, which was scheduled from June 29 to July 12, will not be held in 2020. The tournament, the oldest tennis Grand Slam event, had previously been canceled only during World War I and World War II.

The N.C.A.A. canceled the men’s and women’s Division I basketball tournaments, in addition to all remaining winter and spring N.C.A.A. championships. The association’s initial response to the crisis called for tournament games to be played without fans in the arenas.

Many international sporting events have been postponed, including Six Nations and Women’s Six Nations rugby matches that had been scheduled for February and March, and the Hong Kong and Singapore Sevens. The Boston Marathon and the Masters golf tournament, two of America’s oldest sporting events, were postponed because of the virus.

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Others have taken place with major changes, like the Tokyo Marathon, which was restricted to elite runners. Formula One has said that its upcoming Grand Prix in Bahrain will be closed to spectators, while the Chinese Grand Prix, which had been scheduled for April, was postponed.

Italy and Iran, which are contending with major outbreaks, have canceled sporting events, and Greece barred spectators for a two-week period. Professional soccer games in Spain and Portugal will also take place in empty stadiums for at least two weeks, officials said on Tuesday. A day earlier, FIFA said it would postpone the Asian qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

The BNP Paribas Open, a major tennis tournament that was scheduled to take place in Indian Wells, Calif., beginning this week, was canceled after local health officials declared a public health emergency in the Coachella Valley because of a locally acquired case of the coronavirus.

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York ordered an end to all gatherings of more than 500 people, with some exceptions, forcing the shutdown of Broadway. The runs of 31 plays and musicals were stopped for at least a month. London’s West End theaters have followed suit.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art announced that they would temporarily close. MoMA’s closure would continue at least through March 30; the Met did not announce a target date to reopen.

The organizers of the Met Gala announced that the annual benefit at the Metropolitan Museum, which had been scheduled for May 4, had been postponed indefinitely because of the health crisis.

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The 74th annual Tonys ceremony, scheduled to be held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on June 7, has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date.

The Edinburgh International Festival, a showcase for world theater, dance and music that has been held in the Scottish city every year since 1947, has been canceled. So has the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a scrappier event devoted to comedy and theater. The Edinburgh International, the Edinburgh Art Festival and the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, an event involving armed forces bands from around the world, won’t take place this year either.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy announced that public gatherings were banned and that people would be allowed to travel only for work or for emergencies. Even church services are prohibited.

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Ireland’s government canceled all St. Patrick’s Day parades, including Dublin’s. (Boston, which has a robust Irish-American population, also canceled its parade; Manhattan’s was postponed.) Berlin closed state and private theaters, concert halls, opera houses, state-run museums, monuments and libraries. Austria banned indoor gatherings of more than 100 people.

Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has asked the organizers of sports and cultural events to consider postponing or canceling them. Tokyo’s Nakameguro district canceled its Cherry Blossom Festival. The Japan National Tourism Organization is maintaining a list of attractions and events that have been canceled.

The auditorium of National Theatre of Pecs on the evening of a cancelled show in Pecs, southern Hungary. Due to the coronavirus outbreak the Hungarian government has prohibited all indoor events with more than hundred participants.Credit... Tamas Soki/MTI, via Associated Press

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Austin, Texas, canceled the 34th annual South by Southwest festival after tech companies, including Apple, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, withdrew their participation. The sprawling music, tech and film festival was to run from March 13 to 22, with events planned throughout bars and party spaces across the city, and at a convention center.

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, scheduled for April and May, was postponed until the fall, though organizers did not provide exact dates.

The Tribeca Film Festival, which was scheduled to run from April 15-26, has been postponed. Organizers did not give a new date for the event.

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In Washington, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts canceled all public events and performances through the end of March.

The Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla. — a complex of six separately ticketed parks that have a combined annual attendance of 93 million — will close on March 15 through the end of the month.

The Disneyland Paris Resort and the Disney Cruise Line, which operates four ships that can carry 13, 400 people, said it would close from March 15 through the end of March.

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For only the fourth time in its 65-year history, the Disneyland resort in Anaheim, Calif., said it would close through at least the end of March.

One of the largest rodeos in the world, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, was shut down a week into the event. The rodeo, which was to run through March 22, features bull and horse riding and an exhibition of cattle, pigs, llamas and other animals, among other activities. It regularly draws tens of thousands of people every day.

The Tucson Festival of Books, which was planned for March 14 and 15, was also canceled. The book festival is one of the biggest in the country and usually draws over 100, 000 people to Tucson, Ariz. The Los Angeles Times postponed its 25th annual Festival of Books, originally scheduled to take place next month on the University of Southern California campus, until October.

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The organizers of the giant Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which takes place in the picturesque desert of Southern California and is seen as a bellwether for the multibillion-dollar touring industry, have postponed the festival until October.

“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers” suspended production. The earliest there could be a new episode of either show is on March 30, as both shows will be on hiatus the week of March 23. “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on CBS also suspended production, but Mr. Colbert returned to the airwaves on March 17, delivering a monologue from his bathroom.

Hollywood has been watching the spread of the virus closely, and expecting a major impact on box office sales. In one of the industry’s first significant responses, the producers of the latest movie in the James Bond franchise, “No Time to Die, ” announced they would move its release from April to November. John Krasinski, the director of “A Quiet Place Part II, ” said the movie’s release would be postponed. The latest film in the blockbuster