{"id":110337,"date":"2020-03-15T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/nintendos_new_york_store_is_reducing_its_opening_hours_to_combat_covid-19"},"modified":"2020-03-15T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T01:45:00","slug":"nintendos-new-york-store-is-reducing-its-opening-hours-to-combat-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/15\/nintendos-new-york-store-is-reducing-its-opening-hours-to-combat-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s New York Store Is Reducing Its Opening Hours To Combat COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/468b7b4ed62a0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/468b7b4ed62a0\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Nintendo NY Store\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/468b7b4ed62a0\/nintendo-ny-store.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/468b7b4ed62a0\/nintendo-ny-store.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo NY Store\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s New York store will be taking new steps to combat the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, officially known as COVID-19. As of Sunday, 15th March, and continuing for the foreseeable future, the store will reduce its opening hours. From Monday to Friday, it will be open from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm, and on the weekend the store will run from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>To further protect its employees and guests, it is closely following guidance provided by the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control, and local public health departments. It&#8217;s increased deep cleaning services, is limiting the number of customers in the store at once, has cancelled all in-store events, and is complying with the ban of all public gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>Demo stations will also be wiped down by employees regularly, and staff have been advised to stay at home and self-quarantine if they feel unwell for up to 14 days. Below is the full message that was posted on the Nintendo NY Twitter account:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Nintendo New York Notice\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ecb0a39c504ac\/nintendo-new-york-notice.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ecb0a39c504ac\/nintendo-new-york-notice.original.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo New York Notice\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>On Friday, the coronavirus outbreak <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/nintendo_of_america_employee_tests_positive_for_covid-19\">reached<\/a> Nintendo of America&#8217;s headquarters in Redmond, Washington when an employee tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. All staff who came into contact with this individual are now in self-quarantine and Nintendo will allow all of its employees within the states of California and Washington to work from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo&#8217;s New York store will be taking new steps to combat the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, officially known as COVID-19. As of Sunday, 15th March, and continuing for the foreseeable future, the store will reduce its opening hours. From Monday to Friday, it will be open from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm, and on [&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-110337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110337","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=110337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}