Nathaniel Fetalvero · · 1 min readDeep Dive: How startups are faring in the face of an epidemic
Recently labelled by the World Health Organization as 2019-nCoV, the novel coronavirus has spread rapidly across China and the world. More people have contracted Covid-19 – the disease caused by this microbe – in a much shorter time than SARS, which became a global epidemic in 2003.
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But what is the outbreak’s impact on the startup scene? Tech in Asia reporter Putra Muskita dishes the details.
Timecodes:
00:00 – Intro music
00:38 – What is Deep Dive? What happened to Startup Snapshot?
01:15 – This week’s topic: the 2019-nCoV or novel coronavirus
02:14 – How 2019-nCoV is affecting tech players in the travel space
04:11 – What companies today have learned from SARS
06:07 – Ecommerce is thriving, but that’s nothing to boast about
07:25 – Can these companies supply the growing demand for personal protection products?
09:00 – Some startups are taking steps to actively prevent the spread of the virus
10:20 – What’s in store for the tech industry in the coming months
Download the full transcript here.
Featured reporter:
- Putra Muskita, a Tech in Asia reporter based in Jakarta, Indonesia
Essential reading:
- Travel slumps, ecommerce thrives as Wuhan coronavirus spreads
- Commentary: How the coronavirus outbreak will make China’s tech titans stronger than ever
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