{"id":110260,"date":"2020-03-13T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/nintendo_of_america_employee_tests_positive_for_covid-19"},"modified":"2020-03-13T03:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T03:41:00","slug":"nintendo-of-america-employee-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/13\/nintendo-of-america-employee-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Of America Employee Tests Positive For COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9482940cadcc5\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9482940cadcc5\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Nintendo Of America\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9482940cadcc5\/nintendo-of-america.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9482940cadcc5\/nintendo-of-america.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Of America\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">Nintendo<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/the_outer_worlds_switch_release_gets_delayed_due_to_the_coronavirus_outbreak\">delaying<\/a> game releases and shutting down this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/e3_2020_is_officially_cancelled\">E3<\/a>, the coronavirus outbreak has now hit Nintendo of America&#8217;s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/health\/coronavirus-daily-update-march-12-what-to-know-today-about-covid-19-in-the-seattle-area-washington-state-and-the-nation\/\">The Seattle Times<\/a> is reporting a Nintendo employee has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and has also been in contact with other staff members.<\/p>\n<p>The video game company reportedly confirmed this on Thursday evening. All Nintendo employees in contact with this individual are now in self-quarantine, whether they have symptoms or not. Here&#8217;s a direct statement from NoA:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nintendo of America is supporting this individual as they recover and will continue to take precautions to safeguard the health and well-being of all our employees and the broader community<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/nintendo_joins_microsoft_and_bungie_with_work_from_home_policy_in_face_of_coronavirus\">stated last week<\/a>, Nintendo is now allowing all of its staff located within the states of California and Washington to work from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo After delaying game releases and shutting down this year&#8217;s E3, the coronavirus outbreak has now hit Nintendo of America&#8217;s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The Seattle Times is reporting a Nintendo employee has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and has also been in contact with other staff members. The video game company reportedly confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}