The 2020 BRICS summit is the planned twelfth annual BRICS summit, an international relations conference to be attended by the heads of state or heads of government of the five member states Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The meeting was originally scheduled to take place in Saint Petersburg from July 21 to 23, 2020,[3] but was postponed indefinitely due to the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic.[4] The BRICS Summit to be held virtually on Nov 17, 2020.[1]