From The Trussville Tribune staff reports
MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs has halted public access to service offices for the next two weeks.
The department released a statement that it will temporarily restrict public access to county veteran service offices from March 16 to April 6 as a precautionary measure to the coronavirus outbreak.
The Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs will still assist veterans, family members and caregivers through telephone and other means of communication such as email and texting.
This announcement coincides with the department restricting visitation at the state’s four veterans homes. Only medically-necessary visits by outside healthcare personnel and/or visits by family members to terminally ill residents in their final days are allowed.
Routine visits by non-employees, to include work conducted by volunteers, have been temporarily suspended at the homes.
