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VIGILANCE AGAINST THE VIRUS

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 14 years, the world’s biggest smartphone conference, Mobile World Congress (MWC), was cancelled last month. This multi-million-dollar Barcelona-based event shut its doors due to fear of the novel coronavirus (also called 2019-nCoV) which has led to shops across China shutting their doors and cruise ships docked and quarantined.

“The cancellation of MWC is not just a big blow to major players who had planned their most significant product launches of the year but also for startups and small to medium enterprises who would have invested a big chunk of the

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