By Our Reporter
Access Bank Plc has temporarily closed its Ligali Ayorinde, Victoria Island, Lagos branch after a visitor tested positive for coronavirus.
“We have confirmed that an individual who visited our Ligali Ayorinde branch on Monday 16th March 2020, has tested positive for coronavirus,” Access Bank said in a statement on Monday.
“He was symptom-free as at the time of visit and he is currently being monitored at an Isolation Centre in Yaba.”
National WAVES learnt that the visitor was a former staff of the bank who returned from the United Kingdom recently and that the branch was fumigated on Monday morning after the bank learned of him testing positive for coronavirus.
Mr. Amaechi Okobi, Group head, corporate communications of Access Bank told staff in an internal email sent at 12:14 on Monday that all gym, creche, staff canteens and lunchrooms will be closed from Monday.
Staff were advised to bring their food from home and barred from moving “across locations” and were told to stay on their respective floors.
He added that all meetings will take place online. It also advised employees returning from leave “to self-report and/or self isolate as they resume using the staff Travel Declaration” form
