MWC 2020: GSMA Announces Health Safety Measures for Coronavirus

Feb. 10, 2020

According to GSMA’s email, the following additional measures are being put in place by the organisers:

The organisers have also mentioned that they are monitoring the situation and plans may be adapted according to developments. Hopefully that doesn’t mean the event will have to be cancelled or postponed.

Apart from the measures mentioned by the GSMA above, the organisers have also put in place a number of preventative safety measures including the following:

Speaking about the threat posed by Coronavirus, and the readiness of the Spanish health system, the country’s health minister Alba Vergés said,“The Catalan health system is prepared to detect and treat coronavirus, to give the most appropriate response, and this must be clear to those attending MWC Barcelona.”The head of Service of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Antoni Trilla, also added that“we are not in an exceptional situation and our health system is ready.”