The company asked employees to halt non-essential travel to China and told employees who had traveled there to work from home, a spokesman said yesterday. South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc said it was urging employees to avoid all non-essential travel to China, while banking group Standard Chartered restricted travel to China and Hong Kong. In Germany, auto supplier Webasto Group, which has 11 sites in China, including Wuhan, has halted all corporate travel to and from China following the outbreak and the infection of an employee. As companies reassessed the risk of travel to China, some airlines said demand for flights was falling and they were adjusting schedules. International SOS, a medical and travel security services firm that advises companies on travel, said that its guidance for now is that business travel to China outside Hubei Province could continue.
