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Google is preventing employees from traveling to Italy, Iran, Japan, and South Korea because of outbreaks of the novel coronavirus, Business Insider reported. Amazon is asking employees to defer all nonessential travel, a spokesperson confirmed to The Verge, which includes domestic travel within the US.
Both companies had already halted employee travel to China, and Google temporarily closed down its offices in China at the end of January.
A Google employee in Zurich, Switzerland, has the novel coronavirus, a spokesperson confirmed to The Verge. “They were in the Zurich office for a limited time, before they had any symptoms,” the spokesperson said in an email.
Amazon senior vice president Dave Clark wrote in an email that employees...
from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/28/21158029/google-amazon-travel-coronavirus-covid-china-italy-iran-japan-south-korea
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