A cook wearing a protective face mask prepares a meal in Shanghai on February 18. Picture: AFP/NOEL CELIS
Australian casino operators, and rivals, Crown Resorts and Star Entertainment announced plans to take half their electronic gaming machines and table offline to ensure their customers got some space. The casino changes were in line with Australian government advice issued a day earlier that recommended no nonessential gatherings of more than 500 people be held. Australia has recorded more than 250 cases, including Hollywood star Tom Hanks.
In South Korea on Monday, Samsung Electronics urged shareholders to vote electronically at its AGM later this week, the first time the company has adopted this measure. In the Philippines, Samuel Matunog, president of ICT Davao an umbrella organisation for 56 call centre companies, said it had asked agents “not to hold hands and avoid cheek-to-cheek kisses”.