There won't be new emojis in 2021 because of coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic is hitting emoji. No new emojis will be unveiled in 2021. The planned annual release instead will be pushed back to 2022, according to the Unicode Consortium, a non-profit that oversees emoji standards and is responsible for new releases. That's because the coronavirus fallout has forced the Consortium to delay the new version of the Unicode Standard -- which underpins emojis -- by six months from March 2021 to September 2021. As a result, developers won't have enough ti