Some Banks, Credit Unions Temporarily Closing Branches Due to COVID-19 Related Staff Shortages

Several Bay Area banks and recognition unions person temporarily closed immoderate of their branches arsenic cases of the omicron COVID-19 variant spike crossed the portion and unit workers to enactment home.

Patelco Credit Union, which serves Bay Area residents from Marin County to Santa Clara County, said successful an email to customers Thursday that the microorganism has forced the recognition national to adjacent immoderate of its branches and led to longer waiting times for its telephone center.

While recognition national did not elaborate connected which branches are presently closed owed to COVID-19-related staffing issues, immoderate of its branches successful Campbell, Hayward, Lafayette, Milpitas, Novato, Oakland, Pleasanton and San Mateo are each presently closed.

Major bankers Chase and Wells Fargo besides reported impermanent closures of immoderate of their branches owed to staffing shortages, though some banks noted that the bulk of their branches successful the Bay Area stay open.

"Our temporarily closed locations volition resume operations arsenic soon arsenic possible," a spokesperson for Wells Fargo said successful an emailed statement. "We are atrocious to inconvenience immoderate customers who whitethorn bash their banking astatine 1 of our temporarily closed branches."

Spokespersons for different fiscal institutions successful the greater Bay Area, including Provident Credit Union, Bay Federal Credit Union and San Francisco Fire Credit Union, did not travel up connected requests astir COVID-related staffing issues astatine their branches.

In abstracted statements, Chase, Wells Fargo and Patelco each urged customers affected by subdivision closures to utilize their respective mobile and online banking services arsenic needed.