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Netflix in lock-down due to risk of coronavirus spread in an office

Netflix's head office in Los Angeles may have been exposed to the coronavirus as an employee who works there looks 'likely' to have been infected. Although many employees were already working from home, around 1,000 of them are currently at varying degrees of risk. The office has now been evacuated.

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