Coronavirus Outbreak: Tech giants withdraw into shell

With 29 cases of coronavirus in India, tech industry in India is withdrawing into a shell, with Paytm, Nearbuy, Wipro, TCS and HCL anuncing an action plan to safeguard ir employees.

Nearbuy, which claims to be India’s first hyper-local online platform that enables customers and local merchants to discover and eng with each or, has decided to close its Gurugram office for at least 14 days as a precautionary measure. company has told its employees to work from home during period and also keep a proper check on ir health.

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'vised our employees to be vigilant'

Global giant in software, Wipro also on Wednesday anunced that it has suspended employee travel to coronavirus-stricken China, Hong Kong, and Macau, company said on Wednesday.

company also said any employee who has travelled to an affected place in China in last few days has been vised to work from home for 14 days before resuming work in office.

"We have vised our employees to be vigilant, especially those based in China and those who have visited country recently," said Wipro.

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Ar global giant in software Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) also claimed that it was working closely with all relevant global and regional and local health institutions to tackle COVID-19 outbreak. 

While HCL Techlogies said it has invoked an epidemic contingency plan in impacted geographies and is providing full support to employees, wherever possible.

Meanwhile, one of India's leing digital payment banks Paytm on Wednesday decided to shut its offices in Gurugram and ida for at least two days after one of its employees who h recently travelled to Italy was tested positive with COVID-19.

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In an official statement, company informed that it has suggested team members of COVID-19 patient get ir health tests done immediately, while all ir offices will remain shut for sanitising purposes. 

"We have also vised all our colleagues to work from home for a couple of days while we get our offices sanitized," a Paytm spokesperson.

In India, as many as 30 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in India till Wednesday.

Till w globally, a total of 90,893 cases of COVID-19 infections and 3,110 deaths, mostly in China, have been reported.

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