The biggest smartphone event of the year, Mobile World Congress (MWC), is set to take place in Barcelona later this month, but the outbreak and spread of novel coronavirus has cast a dark shadow over proceedings.
If the level of concern in the tech community around the spread of the illness were high before, they went up a notch after LG, which traditionally has a huge presence at the show, dropped out earlier this week, and the GSMA, which organises MWC, advised attendees − there were more than 100,000 of them last year − to not shake hands with anybody at the event, which officially runs from February 24 to February 27 but will actually kick off a day or two earlier.
…
Read full post here:
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/coronavirus-and-mwc-2020-who-is-definitely-attending-who-has-pulled-out-3982329
