{"id":60695,"date":"2020-02-03T13:06:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T05:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60695"},"modified":"2020-02-03T13:06:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T05:06:52","slug":"uber-suspends-240-users-accounts-in-mexico-over-possible-virus-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60695","title":{"rendered":"Uber suspends 240 users accounts in Mexico over possible virus contact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.bangkokpost.com\/media\/content\/20200202\/c1_3511749.jpg\" alt=\"The Uber ride-hailing app said Mexico City health authorities requested information in January on a possible carrier of coronavirus.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Uber said Mexico City health authorities requested information on a possible carrier of coronavirus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MEXICO CITY, Feb 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Uber has suspended the accounts of 240 users in Mexico who may have been in contact with drivers that ferried a person suspected of having the deadly coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/wuhan-virus-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-china-hubei-12379196\" target=\"_blank\">300 people have died<\/a>\u00a0from the novel coronavirus in mainland China and although more than 100 people have been infected outside the country, Mexico has not reported a confirmed case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ride-hailing app said Mexico City health authorities requested information in January on a possible carrier of coronavirus, with Uber finding two drivers who transported the suspected individual before driving a further 240 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have proceeded to send information to these two drivers and the 240 users regarding the temporary deactivation of their accounts,&#8221; the company said in a statement posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mexico&#8217;s Ministry of Health said it continues to monitor people who may have had contact with the possible coronavirus carrier &#8211; identified as a tourist of Chinese origin &#8211;\u00a0who subsequently left the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Of the contacts identified so far, none have developed symptoms of the disease more than 10 days after exposure, which exceeds the average incubation time,&#8221; the authorities said in a report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also on Saturday, Mexico said it had evacuated 10 people from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber said Mexico City health authorities requested information on a possible carrier of coronavirus. MEXICO CITY, Feb 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Uber has suspended the accounts of 240 users in Mexico who may have been in contact with drivers that ferried a person suspected of having the deadly coronavirus. More than\u00a0300 people have died\u00a0from the novel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60695"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}