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By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall
March 19 (Reuters) - Several employees at Goldman Sachs
Group Inc's New York headquarters are believed to have
contracted the novel coronavirus, according to two sources,
making it the latest Wall Street bank whose staff have been
affected by the pandemic.
Over the past two weeks, employees at JPMorgan Chase & Co
, Morgan Stanley, Barclays and BlackRock
have all reported confirmed cases among their New
York-area staff. Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs have
reported that some employees were confirmed to have the virus at
offices in San Francisco and Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United
States.
In a statement on its website earlier on Thursday, Goldman
Sachs said that an employee in its investment banking division
in Hong Kong was suspected to have the virus and has been in
self-isolation since Tuesday.
The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because Goldman
Sachs has not yet confirmed the cases publicly.
Banks, including Goldman Sachs, have taken measures in
recent weeks to try to protect employees from contracting the
flu-like virus, including by restricting travel for work, having
web conferences instead of in-person meetings, and asking most
employees to work from home.
There are now more than 219,000 confirmed cases of the
coronavirus and at least 8,900 deaths. The epidemic has touched
nearly every country in the world, and is now being compared
with other traumatic periods such as World War Two, the 2008
financial crisis and the 1918 Spanish flu.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Dilts Marshall; Editing by Bernadette
Baum)