Silicon Valley shut down by coronavirus as Apple tells 12,000 staff to stay at home after Google and Microsoft warning
APPLE has urged Silicon Valley staff to work from home as the death toll from coronavirus continues to climb.
The plea to its 12,000 workers follows similar requests from Google, Microsoft and Amazon - to avoid close contact among employees.
“Be calm. It will go away," the President told reporters at the White House Friday.
“We have very low numbers compared to major countries throughout the world.
"It's an unforeseen problem," he added.
“It came out of nowhere. We're taking care of it.”
"We don’t have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward,” Pence told reporters after meeting with a coronavirus task force and 3M executives in Minnesota, reported.
“For those that we believe have been exposed, for those who are showing symptoms, we’ve been able to provide the testing.
Pence said "roughly a million and a half tests" were being sent out, and that so far, health officials had enough tests for those that had symptoms.
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