Bengaluru, March 13 (IANS): City-based real estate major RMZ Corp on Friday confirmed that one Google employee operating from its property tested positive for coronavirus.

"We hereby confirm that an employee of Google, has been tested positive for coronavirus and he was working within the premises of RMZ Infinity," told an RMZ Corp spokesperson to IANS.

She said the tech giant quickly apprised RMZ about the development and both organisations joined forces to fight the virus.

"Google was swift in bringing this to our notice. We have been working very closely with Google and have taken on sanitization and fumigation procedures at RMZ Infinity in the interest of mitigation," said the real estate major's spokesperson.

RMZ said all other offices located in the Infinity building have been apprised of the situation and necessary safety measures being taken.

On Thursday night, Karnataka Health Minister B. Sriramulu confirmed that a 76-year-old man from Kalaburgi died of coronavirus.