It is getting serious…
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Amazon told all 798,000 of its employees on Friday to avoid “non-essential travel” domestically and internationally because of concerns about COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to Business Insider.
Earlier on Friday, The New York Times reported that employees on Amazon’s worldwide operations team, which oversees much of the company’s technology and logistics globally, received a separate email from the senior vice president in charge of the team, Dave Clark, telling them not to plan any meetings requiring travel until at least April, when the company hoped to have a better sense of the outbreak’s impact.