(Reuters) - Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) said on Friday it had canceled its global marketing summit scheduled for next month in San Francisco due to coronavirus-related risks.
"Out of an abundance of caution, we canceled our global marketing summit due to evolving public health risks related to coronavirus," a company spokesman said.
The event, scheduled for March 9 to March 12 at the Moscone Center, was expected to see over 4,000 participants.
Earlier this week, Mobile World Congress (MWC), the annual telecoms industry gathering in Barcelona, was canceled after a mass exodus by exhibitors on coronavirus fears.
Major U.S. tech companies including Facebook, Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) and AT&T had pulled out of MWC.
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The virus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has killed over 1,300 people so far and infected more than 63,800 people on the Chinese mainland.