text: Intel, Facebook drop out of key mobile fair over virus fears | Tech/Gadgets | Malay Mail
  Wednesday, 12 Feb 2020 08:47 AM MYT
  Facebook, which operates Instagram and WhatsApp, said in a statement that it was pulling out of the Barcelona event because of public health risks related to the virus. — AFP pic
  SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 12 — US chip giant Intel, Facebook, Chinese phonemaker Vivo and Cisco all withdrew from the Mobile World Congress over coronavirus fears yesterday, joining other industry heavyweights pulling out of the world's top mobile fair.
  By yesterday, the death toll from the virus had risen to 1,016, with more than 42,000 people infected.
  Almost all of the deaths and infections have been in mainland China, although the virus has since been detected in 25 countries, in what the World Health Organisation yesterday said posed a "very grave threat" for the world. — AFP