Apple, Google, Samsung, Tesla and other manufacturers stop working due to coronavirus in China

A few days ago we wrote that due to the coronavirus, Xiaomi decided to close its stores in China.

Now many large manufacturers have joined it.

Who closed

So the Chinese government first isolatedseveral large cities, after which it decided to close the factories. We are talking about Samsung enterprises, as well as Foxconn and Pegatron, where Apple devices are assembled. In addition, by order of the authorities, Tesla closed its factory in Shanghai. Tentatively, production has been stopped until February 9.

Google has four offices in China, including a search engineand is not available in the Middle Kingdom. The company has decided to close offices in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan and is advising employees who remain there to leave these countries and work from home for at least a couple of weeks.

Apple has also closed all of its stores in China.Amazon and Microsoft have restricted their employees' business travel to China. Ford and Toyota's Chinese assembly plants are also idle, and Starbucks has decided to temporarily close more than 2,000 of its coffee shops in China.

According to the latest data, the number of deathsdue to coronavirus reached 171. For more than 12 thousand Chinese, doctors suspect infection with the new coronavirus. The number of confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by coronavirus 2019-nCoV reached 8,152 on Thursday evening.

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