Coronavirus | Amazon halts all non-essential employee travel

As fears around coronavirus continue to rise – with new cases being announced each day – Amazon has now announced plans to ban non-essential employee travel in the US and internationally.

According to Tech Republic, the ecommerce giant has asked all of its 798,000 staff members to stop all non-essential travel, both domestic and internationally, with immediate effect.

The New York Times reported that on Friday last week, employees from Amazon’s worldwide operations team were told not to plan any meetings requiring travel until at least April.

This news comes as the US announced 70 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 36 in the UK, which has prompted more companies to take precautions.