Google Employee In Bangalore Tested Positive For COVID-19

A Google techie in Bangalore has just been tested positive for COVID-19 and is now quarantined, as stated by an internal document.

The document is an email sent by Anand Rangarajan, Bangalore site lead and director of engineering to the company’s employees on Thursday.

Rangarajan said that the Googler had spent time in a foreign country he showed up for work on Monday without any symptom. A few hours later, the techie felt ill and returned home. The Googler was later confirmed to be infected with COVID-19.

This is the second confirmed case of Google’s employees contracting COVID-19. The first case is an employee in Zurich. The search engine giant has urged all of its employees to work from home, including 100,000 techies in North America.

Rangarajan told employees to work remotely from the 13^th of March so that the company can sanitize the workplace. He asked the staff to stop coming to the RMZ office this weekend and food would not be supplied starting yesterday.

Google’s employees in Bangalore will have to wait until March 15 for more updates on when they can come back to the office.

Bangalore is just one of many Google’s offices in India. It is in charge of search, product support, and services.

According to Girish Prabhu who works in the same tower with the RMZ office, people in the building were panic. Athul Kumar, another person working in the building said that there were five or six companies in the tech park and everyone was instructed to go home immediately.

As of today, COVID-19 has been declared a global pandemic. It has taken the lives of 4,718 patients and infected over 127,800 people globally.

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