March 4, 2020
New Delhi: One of India’s leading digital payment banks Paytm on Wednesday decided to shut its offices in Gurugram and Noida for at least two days after one of its employees who had recently travelled to Italy was tested positive with COVID-19.
In an official statement, the company informed that it has suggested team members of the COVID-19 patient to get their health tests done immediately, while all their offices will remain shut for sanitising purposes.
“We have also advised all our colleagues to work from home for a couple of days while we get our offices sanitized,” a Paytm spokesperson told IANS.
Paytm currently has five offices in Noida and one office in Gurugram.
In India, at least 25 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in India till Wednesday.
Till now globally, a total of 90,893 cases of COVID-19 infections and 3,110 deaths, mostly in China, have been reported. IANS
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