Thousands Ordered To Work From Home As Experts Warn Japan Is “On The Cusp Of A Large Outbreak”

• Thousands Ordered To Work From Home As Experts Warn Japan Is “On The Cusp Of A Large Outbreak”
  by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  With half of China’s population facing some level of travel restriction due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Politburo’s attempt to get the country back to work has been slow going and fraught with setbacks.
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  Much of the coverage so far has lingered on Apple’s supply woes and warnings by companies as diverse as automakers and textiles firms about supply chain disruptions tied to factory closures in China. But China isn’t the only country facing serious economic blowback from the outbreak.
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  Tens of thousands of professional workers in Japan have been asked to work from home in a government-supported policy to contain a possible outbreak in Tokyo. With 66 confirmed cases outside the 542 infected aboard the ‘Diamond Princess’, Japan has the largest number of cases outside China.
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  As the government advises people to avoid crowded area, many companies have instructed employees to either work from home or minimize their time in-office. According to Nikkei, they include: Soy, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Takeda, NEC, KDDI and SoftBank.
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