German software giant SAP on Thursday pulls down the shutter of its offices in India for an "extensive sanitation" after two employees tested positive for H1N1 swine flu at its Bangalore headquarters, the corporate said.
SAP, the software major shuts operations at their headquarters in Bangalore and two other locations -- Gurgaon and Mumbai -- and asked much staff to work from their home until further notice. This is a fresh fear that started cropping amid an ongoing global crisis caused by deadly COVID-19 viral infection.
"Detailed contact tracing that the infected colleagues may have inherited contact with is underway," read a corporation statement.
The company said they're going to sanitise and fumigate the premises as a remedial measure to limit the spread of the infection, and asked its staff to hunt medical help for symptoms matching the infection.
It didn't disclose whether the infected staff had any travel history or mention their medical condition.
Fever, chills and pharyngitis and is analogous to seasonal influenza are common decision-making symptom for H1N1 and its fatality rates are pretty high since first detected in April 2009 within the US.
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Separately, 2,100 people have reportedly died in China since the epidemic of deadly new coronavirus in December that has spread to many countries, with no breakthrough in treating the patients.