Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple have restricted all nonessential travel to China over coronavirus outbreak by rachsandl
... [+]Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images: Facebook, Microsoft and Apple have restricted all nonessential travel to China as the deadly coronavirus spreads throughout the country.
Facebook, Microsoft and Apple are following updated guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and U.S. State Department, which on MondayFacebook and Microsoft advised employees based in China to work from home. ”Based on the evaluation of risk communicated by global health authorities we have advised employees in China to work from home and cancel all non-essential business travel,” a Microsoft spokesperson said.
"Out of an abundance of caution, we have taken steps to protect the health and safety of our employees," Facebook spokesman Anthony Harrison said.. While the company manufactures most of its iPhones in China, it is unclear how the outbreak will affect those operations. “We’re restricting travel to business critical travel,” CEO Tim Cook told. “For employees that are in the Wuhan area, we are providing care kits and supplying them across our employee population in China as well.
There are currently five confirmed cases of the disease in the U.S., and officials are currently testing 73 patients for the virus.: The coronavirus has so far infected 4,700, killed 100 people in China and spread to 16 other countries, including the U.S., France, Canada, Japan, Cambodia and Thailand. The Chinese government has locked down more than a dozen cities in an attempt to quarantine the the disease.
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