Hyundai suspends output at one factory after worker tests positive for coronavirus: source

Hyundai Motor shut down a factory in South Korea on Friday after a w...

Hyundai Stock Dips As Company Shuts Down Factory After Worker Tests Positive For Coronavirus

Hyundai Motor Company's (OTC: HYMTF) shares dipped on Friday's trade in Seoul as the company's production is hit by the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. What Happened The South Korean automaker has shut down a factory in the city of Ulsan after a worker tested positive for the coronavirus, Reuters reported Friday. Hyundai has five factories in Ulsan, which account for about 30% of the company's entire production worldwide, according to...

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Nike Shutters European Headquarters After Worker Contracts Coronavirus

Nike shuts its European headquarters in the Netherlands temporarily after a worker is confirmed to be infected with the novel coronavirus.

Cruise ship worker flees coronavirus quarantine in Cambodia to return to Oregon

Postal worker in Washington state tests positive for coronavirus; Rhode Island announces 1st case

Calls for Amnesty as Undocumented Worker in Taiwan Contracts the Coronavirus

Cuomo Reveals First NYC Coronavirus Patient Is a Health Care Worker

Andrew Cuomo revealed Monday that the first person to test positive for coronavirus in New York city was a health worker who had traveled to Iran.

New York coronavirus patient is health care worker who traveled to Iran isolated at home

New York’s First Coronavirus Patient Is Health-Care Worker

New York’s first patient infected with coronavirus is a health-care worker who showed symptoms of disease only after returning from Iran, officials said.

Coronavirus In NYC: Health Care Worker Tests Positive After Returning From Iran

Gov. Cuomo said the woman is quarantined inside her Manhattan home and there’s no reason for the public to panic.

Coronavirus In NYC: Health Care Worker Tests Positive After Returning From Iran Husband Awaiting Results

Health care worker in Placer County confirmed to have 2019 coronavirus

The resident is a healthcare worker who had close contact with a case in Solano County.

BMW quarantines some German employees after worker tests positive for coronavirus

BMW quarantines German employees after worker tests positive for coronavirus

Coronavirus: Palestinian woman accused of assaulting Japan aid worker

In security camera footage, a Japanese woman can be seen holding a phone up, as if filming, as the Palestinian woman shouts 'corona, corona'....

Coronavirus live updates: Postal worker in Washington tests positive; Rhode Island announces 1st case

Washington state officials said Sunday night that a King County resident had died from the coronavirus, making them the second person in the U.S. to die from COVID-19.

Coronavirus confrontation: Palestinian woman accused of assaulting female Japanese aid worker

Woman dies at aged care centre where worker had coronavirus

An investigation is underway into whether a 95-year-old nursing home resident in Sydney died from coronavirus.

Coronavirus Spreads in Washington State as Amazon Worker Tests Positive

An Amazon worker in Seattle tested positive for the novel coronavirus as concerns mounted over its spread in the U.S., though the number of new infections in China, where the outbreak began, continued to decline.

Coronavirus Cases Surpass 1000 in Japan; Amazon Office Worker Positive For Coronavirus

Israel on Wednesday imposed tough new travel restrictions on five European nations due to fears of coronavirus, barring entry to almost all non-residents of the Jewish state arriving from these affected countries. Israel had earlier in the day ordered all citizens and residents returning from the five

Health worker screening LAX passengers tests positive for coronavirus officials say

The person is quarantined at home.

Amazon Seattle worker with coronavirus quarantined

With a growing number of deaths attributed to the coronavirus in Washington state, major employers there are already feeling pressure from the outbreak.

Qantas worker stood down after raising coronavirus fears

Qantas has confirmed it stood down a staff member after they told employees it wasn't safe to work on aircraft arriving from China.

Facebook Amazon each have a worker in Seattle with coronavirus

Microsoft is asking its King County, Washington employees to work from home if possible through March 25

First Amazon worker at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters tests positive for coronavirus

An Amazon employee, the first at the company’s Seattle headquarters, has tested positive for the coronavirus. Two of the company’s employees in Italy had contracted the virus and are in quarantine.

Facebook Closes Seattle Office After Worker Tests Positive For Coronavirus

A Seattle office of another tech giant is being affected by the fast-spreading coronavirus, A Facebook contractor has been diagnosed with the COVID-19. The company notified employees of the diagnosis in a memo Wednesday night and informed then that Facebook’s Stadium East office will be closed until at March 9. Staffers are encouraged to work

Thai cleaners disinfect restaurant used by worker who returned from coronavirus hot-spot South Korea

Cleaners disinfect a restaurant in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand, today (March 5) after a worker returned from coronavirus hot-spot South Korea ate there. The overseas worker, one of 5,000 Thais returning from South Korea where 40 have died so far, took their family to the BBQ grill restaurant on Tuesday (March 3). But staff later learned that they had been serving someone who was at high risk of carrying the deadly COVID-19. Restaurant owner Watcharin Noi Phut, 39, said: ''We saw on social media that the person who recently returned from Korea had eaten here. So we immediately closed the restaurant and began cleaning every surface.'' Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-ocha confirmed today that illegal Thai workers from Daegu, in South Korea, must be put under quarantine for 14 days to prevent the possible spread of the disease. While The country's Public Health Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, said a meeting was held today to find measures to address the return of Thai workers from the rest of the country. More than 5,000 Thai workers have been requested to travel back to Thailand following the outbreak outbreak in South Korea, which has already seen more than 6,100 infections.

Drs. Amesh Adalja and Jennifer Nuzzo: End coronavirus health care worker quarantines

If this policy continues it will be disastrous and further cripple what will already be an over-extended health care system coping with a surge of patients.

HSBC sends staff home after London worker tests positive for coronavirus

HSBC has sent more than 100 of its London staff home after a worker tested positive for the coronavirus, the first known case at a major company in Europe's main financial hub.

Worker infected with coronavirus prompts Facebook to close Seattle office

The 5,000 workers at Facebook’s Seattle office were advised to work from home

New Zealand Steel worker contracts coronavirus staff warned

But the company says they are not seriously ill.