By Hyunjoo Jin and Joyce Lee
By Hyunjoo Jin and Joyce Lee
SEOUL, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Some South Korean employees at Samsung Electronics 005930.KS and Hyundai Motor 005380.KS are staying dwelling as a precautionary measure as company Korea scrambles to forestall the coronavirus outbreak from inflicting widespread disruption in its dwelling market.
About 1,500 employees of Samsung Electronics’ telephone complicated within the southeastern metropolis of Gumi have self-quarantined after one among its employees was contaminated with the illness, an individual aware of the matter stated. They embody 900 employees who commute to Gumi from neighbouring Daegu metropolis, the individual stated.
The southeastern metropolis of Daegu – the epicentre of the virus outbreak in South Korea- and close by cities are an industrial hub in South Korea, Asia’s fourth-biggest financial system, and residential to factories of Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor and numerous others.
South Korea on Monday reported 161 new instances of the coronavirus, bringing the entire variety of contaminated sufferers within the nation to 763, a day after the federal government raised its infectious illness alert…