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Google shuts office in India over swine flu fears
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<blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 5183071" data-attributes="member: 92282"><p><strong>Google Inc. shut one of its offices in southern India for two days after an employee tested positive for swine flu, a company statement said Wednesday.</strong><strong>The office in Hyderabad with 250 workers was closed on Tuesday and Wednesday while it was being sanitized, the statement said. However, the main office in the city, a key software hub in the country, was functioning normally.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>"One of our contractual workers in Hyderabad has been diagnosed with the virus. He has been hospitalized and is under full medical care," the statement said.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>"As a precautionary measure we have closed the concerned office for two days," it said.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>K. Subhakar, the coordinator of state-run Swine Flu Nodal Center, said the Google worker also infected six other people, most of them sharing accommodation with him. No details of the six people were immediately available.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>All seven patients have been quarantined in the Government Chest Hospital for treatment, he said.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Subhakar said 95 workers at the facility have been screened for the virus and four of them have been asked to stay in hospital as their samples were being tested.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>He also said the Google employee had recently returned from the United States but did not show any symptoms when he was screened at the airport.</strong></p><p><strong>In India, 220 people have so far tested positive for swine flu, according to the Health Ministry. Of them, 141 have been sent home after treatment.</strong></p><p><strong>No deaths have been reported so far in India.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gGBK5q0LgRNjBQCvYaHi4SlH0RwgD99EPPKO0" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/ap_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lkdood, post: 5183071, member: 92282"] [B]Google Inc. shut one of its offices in southern India for two days after an employee tested positive for swine flu, a company statement said Wednesday.[/B][B]The office in Hyderabad with 250 workers was closed on Tuesday and Wednesday while it was being sanitized, the statement said. However, the main office in the city, a key software hub in the country, was functioning normally.[/B] [B]"One of our contractual workers in Hyderabad has been diagnosed with the virus. He has been hospitalized and is under full medical care," the statement said.[/B] [B]"As a precautionary measure we have closed the concerned office for two days," it said.[/B] [B]K. Subhakar, the coordinator of state-run Swine Flu Nodal Center, said the Google worker also infected six other people, most of them sharing accommodation with him. No details of the six people were immediately available.[/B] [B]All seven patients have been quarantined in the Government Chest Hospital for treatment, he said.[/B] [B]Subhakar said 95 workers at the facility have been screened for the virus and four of them have been asked to stay in hospital as their samples were being tested.[/B] [B]He also said the Google employee had recently returned from the United States but did not show any symptoms when he was screened at the airport.[/B] [B]In India, 220 people have so far tested positive for swine flu, according to the Health Ministry. Of them, 141 have been sent home after treatment.[/B] [B]No deaths have been reported so far in India.[/B] [URL="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gGBK5q0LgRNjBQCvYaHi4SlH0RwgD99EPPKO0"][IMG]http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/ap_logo.gif[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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