Amazon is the latest technology company to completely pull out of attending this month's Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona because of the coronavirus outbreak.
MWC normally attracts more than 100,000 visitors to Barcelona with up to 6,000 of them arriving from China, where the outbreak began and has killed 908 people to date. In a statement on Sunday, Amazon said:"Due to the outbreak and continued concerns about the new coronavirus, Amazon will withdraw from exhibiting and participating in Mobile World Congress 2020."Amazon's cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services was scheduled to to host a full-day conference track on the first day of the event on 24 February.
The announcement followed similar decisions from companies including the Swedish firm Ericsson, typically one of the biggest exhibitors at the event, American computer processor firm Nvidia and the Korean company LG.GSMA, the global telecoms industry association behind MWC, confirmed in a statement that"some large exhibitors have decided not to come to the show this year with others still contemplating next steps".
"We are grateful for the preventative measures our Chinese exhibitors have put in place, notably ZTE and Huawei," GSMA added.
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