Sco­tia­bank yes­ter­day re-opened its Princes Town Branch fol­low­ing a tem­po­rary clo­sure due to con­fir­ma­tion that an em­ploy­ee was di­ag­nosed with COVID-19.

Ac­cord­ing to the Bank the branch has un­der­gone strin­gent deep clean­ing and sani­ti­sa­tion pri­or to re-open­ing as it con­tin­ues “to safe­guard the health and well-be­ing of em­ploy­ees and cus­tomers.”

Sco­tia­bank said in a state­ment, “We have al­so tak­en all the nec­es­sary pro­to­cols as ad­vised by the Min­istry of Health.” The Bank added that at all its lo­ca­tions it con­tin­ues to have the fol­low­ing mea­sures in place:

1) So­cial dis­tanc­ing—there is a lim­it to the num­ber of per­sons that can en­ter any lo­ca­tion and con­duct busi­ness at any giv­en time.

2)Con­tact­less tem­per­a­ture screen­ing up­on en­try at all lo­ca­tions.

3)Re­quire­ment that all vis­i­tors/cus­tomers wear face masks when vis­it­ing its branch­es.

These may be tem­porar­i­ly re­moved for trans­ac­tions re­quir­ing when ID con­fir­ma­tion.

4) Trans­par­ent pan­els have been in­stalled at the counter spaces to help pro­vide a safe bar­ri­er while cus­tomers are con­duct­ing trans­ac­tions. These bar­ri­ers are al­so with­in the em­ploy­ee spaces.

5) Fre­quent deep clean­ing of its branch­es every busi­ness day, in­clud­ing sani­tis­ing of all sur­faces (door han­dles, ATM key­pads and screens, pin pads, chair han­dles, desks, re­cep­tion ar­eas, teller wick­ets and wash­rooms), and hand sani­tis­er is avail­able in-branch for use by both em­ploy­ees and cus­tomers.

Ac­cord­ing to Sco­tia­bank it is en­cour­ag­ing all its cus­tomers to take the nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions to re­main safe at this time and re­mem­ber that they can do most of their bank­ing on­line.