The committee plans to hold the event at Tokyo Big Sight from May 2 to May 5.
The WHO has reported that the United States has 1,678 cases of COVID-19 with 41 deaths as of Sunday.
The Comic Market Committee announced on Sunday that there is a possibility that the summer Comic Market (Comiket 98) dojinshi convention will be postponed or even canceled altogether to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus illness.
The committee already rescheduled the convention three months earlier than usual to accommodate the 2020 Summer Oympics.