Twitter tells staff to work from home due to coronavirus

Twitter has encouraged its employees to work from home to reduce the risk of novel coronavirus infection, Report says, citing the recent post on Twitter's blog.

"Working from home will be mandatory for employees based in our Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea offices due in part to government restrictions. Our criteria will evolve over time as we get more information, and we will communicate to affected Tweeps as appropriate."

"While this is a big change for us, we have already been moving towards a more distributed workforce that's increasingly remote," the company noted. "We're a global service, and we're committed to enabling anyone, anywhere to work at Twitter."

More than 90,717 cases have been diagnosed in an outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus that emerged at a fish market in China's Wuhan, an international transport hub.

The disease has already claimed nearly 3,115 lives globally, while 47,871 people have recovered.