S&P Global Platts tells London employees to work from home due to coronavirus

Commodity pricing agency S&P Global Platts told employees at its Canary Wharf office in London to work from home until further notice after a visitor was diagnosed with the coronavirus, the company said.

"Platts has a robust business continuity plan to ensure there are no disruptions to our MOC (market-on-close) price assessment process and the essential commodity market intelligence our customers rely on across news and analytics," a company statement said. Platts said about 1,200 employees work in that office.

Britain has so far registered 115 cases and reported its first death from the coronavirus on Thursday.