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Google confirmed on Friday that an employee of its Bengaluru office has been diagnosed with COVID-19.

"The employee has been on quarantine since then, and we have asked colleagues who were in close contact with the employee to quarantine themselves and monitor their health," the company said in a statement.

Karnataka Health Department officials said on Thursday the 26-year old man—the Google employee—who had returned from Greece, has tested positive for coronavirus.

The patient who hails from Mumbai has been admitted and isolated at a hospital and his condition is stable, a department media bulletin had said.

"All (his) primary contacts have been traced and are asymptomatic," it said.

He had travelled from Greece to Mumbai on March 6, and came by flight to Bengaluru on March 8.