Amazon says nearly 20,000 of its workers got Covid-19

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Amazon says that its 1.37 million frontline workers have a lower virus infection rate than expected.

Data on the e-commerce giant's 1.37 million frontline workers, including those at its Whole Foods Market grocery stores in the United States, showed a lower infection rate than expected, Amazon said.

Amazon has ramped up testing to 50,000 a day across 650 sites, according to the Seattle-based company. If the rate of infection among Amazon and Whole Foods workers were the same as the general US population, the number of cases would have topped 33,000, according to the company.

 

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