Dell employee returning to India from Austin tests positive for coronavirus
AUSTIN, Texas — A tech employee returning to India from Austin, Texas, has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Indian digital news platform The News Minute.
The report states Karnataka state health officials confirmed this as the first positive case in the state. The patient is reportedly a software engineer in his 40s from Karnataka who returned to Bengaluru from the U.S. via Dubai on March 1.
The News Minute reports that the man had traveled to his workplace for two days before going to the hospital with coronavirus symptoms. He was then admitted to Rajiv Gandhi Institue of Chest Diseases in Bengaluru on March 8, where he was reportedly placed in isolation and his samples were sent to be tested at the National Institute of Virology.
It is believed the patient developed symptoms about five or six days after leaving Austin.
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He may have been in contact with over 2600 people. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/techie-tested-positive-for-coronavirus-in-bengaluru/articleshow/74555624.cms
