If things go well, it will take place in Barcelona in a few weeks one of the most important events of the year for the world of teléfonos inteligentes, the Mobile World Congress. It takes place from February 24th to 27th and brings visitors from all over the world to its facilities. However, a global health emergency could put an end to the fair.
The coronavirus has killed more than 300 people in China, infected more than 14,000 and quarantined several thousand people. Cánido this global emergency prevent the celebration of Mobile World Congress?
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For now, the mobile is running as planned
He is GSMAevent manager, asked calmly just a few days ago expression:
The next Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will take place as planned.
The organizers confirmed that they are monitoring and assessing the potential impact of the spread of the virus. To be continued all safety recommendations the World Health Organization and Spanish institutions and strengthen medical care during the event.
Some of the main guests are from China, like companies Huawei, Xiaomi and OPPO have headquarters and factories in their home country. In addition, this is taken into account about 6% of the 110,000 visitors expected later this year comes from the Asian giant.
The GSMA people are always in touch with the Catalonia city authorities as well those responsible for public transport to avoid possible infection. On the other hand, a program from cleaning and desinfection the most vulnerable areas of the enclosure.
Scientists around the world are working around the clock to develop a vaccine, some have even managed to isolate the virus to start developing a treatment. Some Italian researchers they have already published the information about their genome in bank gena huge database in which many countries participate.
But even if the situation normalizes in the coming weeks, we must be vigilant, everything perro change dramatically At any time. Probably, the celebration of Mobile World Congress will not be fully clear until the days leading up to the event.
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