Coronavirus: Bengaluru shuts down; firms ask employees to work from home

Google techie tests positive for Coronavirus; Amazon, Uber India, Microsoft ask all employees to work from home if they can

The Silicon Valley of India has been put under a lock-down for a week to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. While most of the top tech companies are asking employees to work from home in Bengaluru, the state government has ordered all malls, cinema houses, populated areas and convention programmes in the city to be shut beginning Saturday.
 
After a Google techie in Bengaluru tested positive on Thursday, the US-headquartered company closed its office in the city for a day asking all employees to work offsite as a precautionary measure.
 
“We can confirm that an employee from our Bengaluru