Software giants SAP on Thursday closed their offices in India for an extensive sanitation after two employees tested positive for H1N1 swine flu at its Bengaluru headquarters. The software major temporarily closed their main office in Bangalore and two other locations -- Gurgaon and Mumbai -- and asked hundreds of staff to work from their home until further notice amid an ongoing global crises caused by deadly COVID-19 virus infection. "Detailed contact tracing that the infected colleagues may have come into contact with is underway," read a company statement.
The company did not mention whether the infected staff had any travel history or any other medical condition. The first case of the deadly infection was detected in April 2009 in the United States. The H1N1 swine flu is a highly contagious zoonotic infection and symptoms include fever, chills and sore throat, according to World Health Organisation. Hundreds had died in India during the outbreak of the infection in 2014 and 2015.