With businesses closing across Winnipeg due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, pharmacies are among the few that remain open to provide essential services to the public — but it’s been a difficult transition for them and their customers as well. “It’s been quite different for us.
We’ve had to really ramp up our safety protocols for our staff, and at the same time, that applies for our delivery drivers, our patients… we’re just trying to limit our exposure,” said Scott Groen of Winnipeg’s Tache Pharmacy. “The social-distancing thing has made it very difficult for us to maintain a large pharmacy,” Groen told 680 CJOB. “We work in close quarters together… so we’ve got markings down on the floor with tape to indicate our two-metre (apart) mark.