{"id":321007,"date":"2020-03-13T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T06:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321007"},"modified":"2020-03-13T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T06:05:07","slug":"bengaluru-google-employee-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bengaluru-google-employee-tests-positive-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru Google employee tests positive for coronavirus  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-321008 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/google.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/google.jpg 439w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/google-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/>Google has confirmed that an employee at their Bengaluru office has tested positive for coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Google in a statement said that the 26-year-old man was at the Bengaluru office for a few hours before showing symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The man had recently returned from Greece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We can confirm that an employee from our Bengaluru office has been diagnosed with COVID-19. He was in one of our Bengaluru offices for a few hours before developing any symptoms. The employee has been on quarantine since then,&#8221; Google said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u201cOut of an abundance of caution, we are asking employees in that Bengaluru office to work from home from tomorrow. We have taken and will continue to take necessary precautionary measures, following the advice of public health officials,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Karnataka had reported the first coronavirus death on Thursday, with the passing of a 76-year-old man who had returned from Saudi Arabia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The confirmed coronavirus cases in India are 74.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has confirmed that an employee at their Bengaluru office has tested positive for coronavirus. Google in a statement said that the 26-year-old man was at the Bengaluru office for a few hours before showing symptoms. The man had recently returned from Greece. &#8220;We can confirm that an employee from our Bengaluru office has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,36,2072,2014],"tags":[1343,12470,6061],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321009,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321007\/revisions\/321009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}