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A Certain Scientific Railgun T Anime Resumes on Friday After Delay Due to COVID-19 Coronavirus

The official website and A Certain Scientific Railgun T (Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T) anime announced on Tuesday that the anime's seventh episode will run on Friday, February 28, after being delayed from Friday, February 21. The staff had stated that they were delaying the episode because effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus situation had affected the production schedule. The sixth episode reran on February 21 instead.

A Certain Scientific Railgun T is the third episodes. The anime's first home video release and fifth home video release will each include a new "bonus" anime.

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of the previous anime seasons' staff are returning for the third season. Maiko Iuchi is composing the music.

The unit perform a new ending theme song for the anime.

The A3! Season Autumn & Winter, the show's second half originally scheduled to run from July to September 2020, has been delayed until further notice.

The delayed episode 7 from February 20 due to the effects of the outbreak as well as production issues.

The production committee did not directly cite COVID-19 as the reason for episode 7's delay.

The Hatena Illusion anime also delayed episodes earlier this month, although their production committees did not directly cite COVID-19 as the reason. All three aired recap episodes. While both Darwin's Game and Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia have already continued their runs, Hatena Illusion only recently aired its recap episode on Thursday.

The first reported cases of the COVD-19 coronavirus occurred in Wuhan, China in December, and then began to spread in varying rates and intensities across many parts of the globe through incubation in human hosts. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a world health emergency on January 30. As of Monday, the WHO reported that there are 79,331 infected individuals worldwide, with 77,262 of them in China and 144 official cases in Japan proper. (The Diamond Princess, a cruise ship docked in Yokohama, has an additional 695 infected individuals.) 2,595 individuals have died from the disease in China. The WHO had reported only one death in Japan on Wednesday, but as of Sunday, a third enger of the Diamond Princess cruise ship died in a Japanese hospital.

Sources: A Certain Scientific Railgun T anime's website and Twitter , Dengeki Online (Tekeon)