Alert about the new virus gets the Swedish companies act

During the first few weeks, more than 800 cases of a new type of coronavirus has been confirmed, according to the Folkhälsomyndigheten. 41 the persons who are affected by the virus have died. According to the Folkhälsomyndigheten should it be on the people, who had other underlying diseases.

for more information, see More cases of new virus in Sweden, but nothing is confirmed.

the spread of a market in the chinese city of xi'an. Several of the great west enterprises operating in the country are now working to prevent the virus from spreading among co-workers.

the Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, with operations in Gothenburg and Södertälje, sweden, has 13,000 employees in China. The company encourages the employees to avoid all travel to and from chinese cities and towns affected by the virus. According to the editor-in-chief: Christina Malmberg Hägerstrand, a couple of hundred of the company's employees in xi'an.

"We are monitoring the situation closely, and the ways in which we relate to the guidelines provided by authorities," she said.

it stopped the trips to xi'an, which is Göteborgs-Posten, the previous reported on. The company does not have its own operations in the region, but the shutdown could impact retailers, " says the team of press officers, and Stefan Elfström, to the ROTOR.

" We will comply with the recommendations issued by the relevant authorities.

the Volvo car corporation also has operations in Chengdu and Shanghai, which is more than 100 or 800 miles from xi'an. It is a matter of distance, " says Stefan Elfström.

" I don't think it's going to be worried unnecessarily.

at the same time, the situation is unusual. Stefan Elfström says that he is not aware of any situation where the Cars behaved in the same way.

" I don't recall a similar case.

for more information: Amina Manzoor: ”very Difficult for the WHO to assess the situation on the virus.”

this is going on business as usual. Public relations and communications manager, mr Stefan Strömberg, said that it is valid as long as the Folkhälsomyndigheten don't consider it a new virus, which is a managed socially harmful disease.

" We have a karantänsplan, which is considered to be sufficient. Should the situation change procedures are in place for how we, and others, ports, and airports, for example, is going to act on it.
the Chinese ships calling at the port of Gothenburg is going to be accepted as normal. Photo: Magnus Hallgren

it has over 5,000 employees in China. In april, he opened a new factory in Changshan, more than 50 kilometers from xi'an. Theo Kjellberg, press officer at the company, said that it is following the developments very closely.

"of Course, is our employees' health is the first priority in this kind of position.

According to Theo Kjellberg, adopt, SKF, said: ”the measures that are needed”. What, exactly, it means he doesn't want to go into that.

According to the Folkhälsomyndighetens the assessment of the January 23, is the possibility that the new virus is spreading in the society very, very low, ”however, it is not possible to exclude the possibility that in isolated cases detected in the country.”

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