The Mobile World Congress is billed to commence later this month. Just when the hype was building as regards the products that would be released at MWC, the mobile show has been hit by a wave of withdrawals. It all began with Amazon announcing its withdrawal from participating at MWC, citing fears over the Coronavirus ravaging China. Other companies like Sony, NVIDIA, LG, Ericsson have also announced their withdrawal from the exhibition.
But in a twist, Xiaomi has reaffirmed that it will participate at MWC 2020. Since some of its team members will come from China, the company released some safety guidelines that would be followed to ensure that any infected person doesn’t make the trip and the safety of fans, the media, partners and others in Barcelona are assured.
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In a press release earlier today, the Chinese tech giant stated that in order to align with personal and product safety during MWC, certain core measures will be adopted. Find the full text of the statement below;
“With the continuing spread of the novel coronavirus pneumonia, we would like to inform our fans, media friends, partners and users that the health and safety of everyone is a top priority for all of us at Xiaomi.
Also, we will attend Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2020 as planned and launch our latest smartphones as well as a range of smart hardware.
Xiaomi is committed to containing the current outbreak by following all effective recommended measures to safeguard the health and well-being of his employees, fans, media friends, partners and users who are coming to visit us around the world.
Thus, we have put in place further instructions regarding our global product launch on February 23 as well as at our MWC booth located at 310, Hall 3, Fira de Barcelona Gran Via, from February 24 to 27.
- We will make sure that all employees travelling from China show no symptoms and would have been out of China for at least 14 calendar days before their arrival in Barcelona for our launch event and MWC.
- We will make sure all senior executives of the company scheduled to take part in any kind of activities and meetings will have been out of China for at least 14 calendar days prior to our launch event and MWC.
- We will follow GSMA’s guidance and ensure that the exhibition booth and all displayed products are disinfected on a frequent basis
- We will make sure that all the staff with booth presentation duty are from our local offices across Europe. We will also ensure they have no symptoms for 14 calendar days before offering on ground support at our launch event and MWC booth. Thank you all for your understanding and support hashtag no me without you”
Xiaomi is taking a different path from those taken by fellow Chinese firms Vivo which announced it is pulling out from MWC 2020. MediaTek and Intel also announced their withdrawal recently. The event may get cancelled considering the number of companies that have already announced they won’t be attending. Apart from that, two persons have reportedly been infected by the Coronavirus in Spain where the event would take place.
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