The employee and those who he met have been placed in quarantine and tests have been conducted on them
Nedbank has confirmed that a Durban-based staff member was among the group of 10 South Africans who travelled to Italy with a man who tested positive for coronavirus .
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases informed him on Thursday that he had tested positive. “Staff that have come into contact with the potentially affected employee on March 2 have already been contacted and placed in self-quarantine. They will be tested before they are cleared from self-quarantine to return to work. The staff member did not come into contact with any clients or third parties‚” Nedbank chief risk officer Trevor Adams said.
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