The fear of coronaviruses in the United States has begun to worsen more than other European countries. Many companies canceled all the events they had planned or planned to attend. Google has canceled the developer dates scheduled to be held in May n Apple has decided not to attend SXSW celebrating next week.
In addition, some companies, such as Apple, have begun recommending some of their employees work remotely from their homes, following the recommendations of the Santa Clara Department of Public Health, who urged that this approach be considered Employees who are not dependent on physical contact.
This same recommendation, warning companies that you should limit or cancel special meetings or conferences, which Apple already did a few days ago cancel your visit to SXSW
In the meantime, Apple has not commented on its plans for the celebration of the WWDC, Apple's International Developers Conference which takes place every year at the beginning of June and when news of the following versions of iOS, tvOS, watchOS and macOS is being introduced They will arrive in September with the next version.
It is possible that before announcing the cancellation of the event, Apple is learning which formula to apply to more than 5,000 developers following these conferences, you know the news that should or should not be done in their use of the introduction of newer versions of Apple apps.
The official number for infection in the United States totals 231, while worldwide, that number has exceeded 100,000.