Scheduled to take place in Egypt from January 13 to 31 2021, the event will be among the first handball competitions to be held during the COVID-19 pandemic after the IHF suspended its events earlier this year.

Restrictions will be put in place for the event after the development of the Egypt 2021 COVID-19 Medical Precaution Plan"

It was created by the Egypt 2021 Medical Commission, led by chairman Hazem Khamis, general manager of the Wadi El-Neel Hospital Cairo and in coordination with the Preventive Medical Sector of the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population.

The plan has been given the green light by the IHF COVID-19 Medical Task Force, led by IHF Anti-Doping Unit chairman Hosny Abdelrahman Ahmed.

It also ensured that it followed the World Health Organization's guidelines and recommendations.

These plans include providing information on COVID-19 to teams, maintaining social distancing, information about mask and hand hygiene, ensuring National Federations are responsible before travelling by taking tests and isolating, as well as the appointment of numerous medical officers for the tournament.

There will be mandatory testing every 72 hours to ensure there are negative results, hand sanitiser and masks will be readily available, there will be a bubble system, transportation will be monitored closely and accommodation will be regularly disinfected.

Precautions will be in place in training halls with the arena split up into separate zones, there will be no handshakes allowed, there will be mandatory mask usage except for those on the field of play and there will be no mixed zones, only virtual press conferences.

An Advisory Board for the Medical Commission will meet daily to review procedures and any positive tests and decide the best way to act on them.

For the first time, there will be 32 teams in the tournament.

Denmark will defend their title having beaten Norway 31-22 in the final on home soil in Herning in 2019.