(Alliance News) - Europe's largest bank HSBC Holdings PLC evacuated 100 staff from its Canary Wharf offices in London after an employee was diagnosed with coronavirus, the Financial Times reported Thursday.
The paper said the employee works in HSBC's investment bank research department and is now under medical supervisions and has self-isolated. The rest of the staff in the unit are now working from home.
The department is on the tenth floor of HSBC's Canary Wharf office, with the affected area having has now undergone a deep-clean.
The rest of the floor is still open, as is HSBC's trading operations on the fourth floor. HSBC said it has taken medical and official advice before deciding to leave the rest of the building open.
About 10,000 people work in the office.
The paper noted that the employee had visited the Canary Wharf office of S&P Global Platts, which has subsequently shut its office down, sending home 1,200 employees.
https://www.ft.com/content/b95fb692-5ed5-11ea-b0ab-339c2307bcd4?segmentId=bf7fa2fd-67ee-cdfa-8261-b2a3edbdf916
By Paul McGowan; paulmcgowan@alliancenews.com
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