“Due to the outbreak and continued concerns about the new coronavirus, Amazon will withdraw from exhibiting and participating in Mobile World Congress 2020,” the company said in a statement on Sunday. Amazon had planned a significant presence through its cloud computing arm AWS, which was due to host a full-day conference track on the first day of the event. The Feb. 24 to 27 event will go ahead as planned, organizer the GSMA telecoms industry association said in a statement on Sunday before Amazon said it was pulling out, adding that it would tighten health precautions to guard against the 2019-nCoV outbreak. About 5,000 to 6,000 visitors typically come from China to the world’s premier telecoms gathering, where companies spend millions on stands and hospitality to fill their order books for the year ahead. The death toll from the outbreak in China rose to 908 as of the end of Sunday, the National Health Commission said yesterday.

Source: Taipei Times February 10, 2020 15:56 UTC