Fear grips Access Bank Customers and Onne Community as Bank Manager dies of Covid-19

…Bank shutdown as many Staff fall sick

Daniel Efe/Port-Harcourt

Panic grips the staff and Customers of Access Bank Branch in Onne, Eleme local government area of Rivers State and the immediate Onne Community has been shut down due to death of the branch Manager of Coronavirus infection.

The Branch manager was said to the bank has, among other things, called on Governor Nyesom Wike to shutdown the Onne Community for contact tracing and curtail the spread.

According to the voice allegedly from female staff said :”Please if you know anyone who have visited that Access Bank Branch in the Last two Weeks, the Person should Self isolate, Or If you recently visited that Branch of Access Bank in Onne Rivers State, Kindly self Isolate to Avoid spreading the Virus”.

Onne Community hosts over 200 companies including, the Oil and Gas Free Zone, Federal Ocean and Federal Lighter Terminals the, Prodeco, Intels, Nigeria Naval School, West Africa Container Terminal, WACT, among others.

At the time of filling this report, the Rivers State Ministry of Health had not made an official comment on the matter.