COVID announcement template

COVID-19 announcement template

Affected by COVID-19 (Coronavirus) | updated April 1, 2020

Is your business encouraging employees to self-quarantine? Have you changed your sanitation protocol? Share with your community how your business is responding to the COVID-19 crisis.

If you haven’t done so already, our absolute essential tips are:

Create a page on your website titled COVID-19, where you continue to add announcements
Add a simple banner with the most fundamental news
Add a popup with the most fundamental news
Send out a newsletter
Post on social media
Update Google listing

Each business will have their own response to the COVID-19 emergency, but here’s a template designed to offer ideas you can pull from, and modify as needed for your communications.

[Greetings]

We wish you all safe health as the COVID-19 threat affects our local and national communities.

Here at (Business Name), we are following recommendations from the CDC, the World Health Organization (WHO) and local health departments. The safety of our guests, team members, and the broader community is of the utmost importance to all of us here at [Business Name].

In response to the situation, we have:

MODIFIED OUR BUSINESS OPERATIONS

Modified Hours
Modified Ordering Methods (Pick up, delivery…)
Opened, Closed, or Modified Communication methods
Sanitation protocols
Social distancing

CARED FOR OUR CUSTOMERS:

Updated packaging
Clearly outlined pickup/dropoff, ordering policies
Anything else that is specific to the customer experience unique to the business

SUPPORTED OUR TEAM MEMBERS:

Encouraged team members to self-quarantine
Enstated specific protocols while employees are at work or at home
Continued salary / financial support

[Business Name] is continuing to monitor the evolution of COVID-19 protocols and will communicate changes to our operations as we remain proactive in serving and protecting our community.

[Add a team photo when appropriate]