The fear of the coronavirus in the United States has begun to be much more worrisome than in some European countries. Many are the companies that have canceled all the events they planned to organize or to which they planned to attend. Google has canceled the developer days that it planned to hold in May and Apple has decided not to attend SXSW which is held next week.
In addition, some companies, such as Apple, have begun to recommend some of their employees to work remotely from their homes, following the recommendation of the Santa Clara Department of Public Health, who urges considering this option to employees who are not dependent on physical contact.
This same recommendation warns companies that they must minimize or cancel large meetings or conferences in person, a step that Apple already carried out a few days ago at cancel your attendance at SXSW where he planned to present his next releases on Apple TV +. At this event, Facebook, Intel and Twitter, among others, had also canceled their attendance.
At the moment, Apple has not commented on what its plans are for the celebration of WWDC, the Worldwide Developers Conference that Apple holds every year in early June and where the news of the next versions of iOS, tvOS, watchOS and macOS are presented that will arrive in September with the next version.
It is likely that before announcing the cancellation of this event, Apple is studying what formula it can use for the more than 5.000 developers who follow these conferences, can know the news that they must or can implement in their applications for the launch of the new versions of Apple's operating systems.
The official number of infections in the United States amount to 231, while worldwide, that figure has exceeded 100.000.