UniCredit Closed Business Center, Branch in Northern Italy Due to Coronavirus

   By Pietro Lombardi 
 

UniCredit SpA said Thursday that it has closed a business center and a branch in the northern Italian city of Piacenza due to the novel coronavirus.

The Italian bank was informed on Wednesday that a business center employee had tested positive for the virus.

The center has been closed since Sunday and it has been cleaned and sanitized. As a precaution, the bank is sanitizing a branch in the same city, which will remain closed until further notice.

UniCredit has recommended that colleagues who had close contact with the employee put themselves in quarantine for 14 days and will reach out to customers who have been at the branch recently.

The province of Piacenza, in the Emilia-Romagna region, has had 319 cases of coronavirus, according to Italian authorities. The number of infected people in the country has risen to 3,089 and 107 have died, Italian authorities said on Wednesday.

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March 05, 2020 05:38 ET (10:38 GMT)

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