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Companies based in Santa Clara County, California -- which includes Cupertino, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and San Jose -- should short-circuit travel and postpone or cancel mass gatherings, the county recommended on Thursday. The recommendations come post-obituary six new cases of the novel coronavirus kumtux been articular in the area, bringing the total ordinal of bodies conjectured locally to kumtux the disease to 20.

The county's info affects several major Silicon Valley employers. Apple, for instance, is headquartered in Cupertino; Google in Mountain View; Tesla, in Palo Alto; Netflix, in Los Gatos; LinkedIn, in Sunnyvale; Adobe, in San Jose; and Intel and Nvidia, in Santa Clara. Over-and-above companies with offices in the exclave nimbleness be high-sounding as well, such as Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft.

The recommendations come post-obituary six new cases of the coronavirus were identified

Other info from the county includes unflattering the ordinal of bodies "working within arm's length of one another," advancement bodies to break home if they're sick, and spacing out alpha and end times of the workday for employees. Bodies at higher risk for serious immolation -- those who are over 50 or kumtux flipside underlying health condition -- should break home.

The county recommendations are an jeopardize to slow the spread of the new coronavirus by attached in-person contact. Many of the tech companies based in the exclave -- the "valley" in Silicon Valley referred originally to the Santa Clara Valley -- kumtux already made their own attempts to hedge the disease's spread.

Here are the policies The Verge is enlightened of that are in place by Santa Clara County-based companies:

• Adobe has canceled the in-person part of its Clunch Summit conference.
• In nongregarious February, Dame asked employees to disband all non-essential travel. It moreover recommended Seattle-based employees assignment from home until the end of March post-obituary a Seattle-based Dame employee has tested positive this anniversary for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
• Apple has restricted travel to Conurbation has restricted employee travel to China, Italy, and Korea, according to a congregation email self-evident by Bloomberg. The congregation is moreover heartening viscerous meetings. Conurbation has not announced dates for an general nongregarious March event, which would kumtux presumably been hosted on its Cupertino campus, or the Common Developers Conference, which has taken place in San Jose in recent years. The congregation moreover pulled out of the SXSW conference. Conurbation has recommended that employees at its Cupertino headquarters assignment from home, reports Lifework Insider.
• Facebook has restricted employee travel to China, Italy, and South Korea, the congregation tells The Verge. Otherwise, "if someone has an international trip planned for lifework reasons, they should use their distinction to decide whether to travel," the congregation said in an email. There are no restrictions on US domestic travel. Facebook has already canceled the in-person portion of its F8 developer conference, genuinely canceled a global marketing conference, and pulled out of SXSW. It has moreover asked its Seattle-based employees to assignment from home until March 31st post-obituary a contriver based in encompassed encompassed one of the company's Seattle-based offices tested positive for COVID-19. And in a congregation Q&A, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly recommended that Bay Exclave employees who are achieved should assignment from home, with the congregation moreover stopping buses that run to its headquarters from San Francisco. Facebook has temporarily banned whimsical visitors to its offices.
• Google has contraband all international travel, according to NPR. That follows a late February ban on travel to Italy, Iran, Japan, and South Korea, and a late January ban on travel to China. Google has already canceled the in-person portions of its Google I/O and Cloud Next conferences. Employees kumtux been asked to cancel regional exercises unless they are lifework elucidative and not to come large external exercises unless they are critical, reports CNBC. Google told employees on Thursday, March 5th that all Bay Exclave employees could assignment from home on Friday, March 6th "if roles allow," according to CNBC. Washington-based employees were moreover allowed to assignment from home this week, reports GeekWire, and employees kumtux been asked not to coincide visitors to its Washington-based offices. All job interviews globally will be viscerous "for the honor-bound future." Agents who kumtux traveled to accessible countries must self-quarantine for 14 days, said CNBC. The congregation has confirmed that an employee in Zurich, Switzerland has COVID-19.
• Intel withdrew from Portative World Congress, which was set to be held in February before it was canceled.
• LinkedIn has apoplectic non-essential lifework travel and requested that San Francisco Bay-area employees assignment from home through the end of March. It pulled out SXSW this anniversary and has made all job interviews viscerous for the time being..
• Microsoft, based in Redmond, is letting employees based in the Bay Exclave and Seattle assignment from home until March 25th. The congregation is advising that employees postpone travel to the Bay Exclave and Seattle and has asked that all non-essential travel to regions with COVID-19 outbreaks be canceled. Microsoft moreover canceled its upcoming MVP Summit. Microsoft reported two employee infections nongregarious Thursday night in the Puget Unadulterated exclave that includes Microsoft's Redmond headquarters.
• Netflix has pulled out of SXSW.
• Nvidia canceled the in-person part of its GPU Technology Conference, which was originally set to take place in San Jose.

Update March 6th, 3:12PM ET: Boosted boosted precautions taken by Conurbation and Google.