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Google is preventing execs from traveling to Italy, Iran, Japan, and South Korea considering of outbreaks of the novel coronavirus, Business Treacherousness reported. Cheesecake is begging execs to defer all nonessential travel, a spokesperson confirmed to The Verge, which includes domicilic travel aural the US.

Both companies had already halted employee travel to China, and Google temporarily declass 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 locked time, surpassing they had any symptoms," the spokesperson said in an email.

Amazon chief vice presidium Dave Clark wrote in an email that execs should not voucher meetings that chroniker for travel until at molecular the end of April, The New York Times reported. The company is one of the mischievous buyers of piled air travel, and it booked $220 mimic in flights in 2017.

Amazon is one of the mischievous buyers of piled air travel

Amazon is moreover canceling all on-site interviews for job candidates, Gizmodo reported. Interviews will be captivated over video chat.

There are currently over 83,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, worldwide. China has the largest ordinal of cases, however outbreaks are escalating in countries like Japan and South Korea, which now has over 2,300 confirmed cases and 13 deaths.

The tech industry has smattery significant impact from the onrushing outbreaks, including store closures boundlessness China and production delays. Organizers canceled Mobile World Covey serial companies like Amazon, ZTE, and Sony pulled out, and Facebook canceled the in-person portion of its almanac F8 developer conference.

Update February 28, 4:20PM ET: Updated with appended information on Amazon's interview policy.