Friday, 02 Oct 2020 08:16 AM MYT
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 2 — Amazon.com Inc yesterday said more than 19,000 of its US frontline workers contracted the coronavirus this year, or 1.44 per cent of the total, a disclosure sought by labour advocates who have criticised the Covid-19 response by the world's largest online retailer. Amazon in a blog post encouraged other businesses to report comparable figures. It said it will expand virus testing to 50,000 U.S. employees per day by November through internally built capacity.
Out of 1,372,000 frontline employees at Amazon and the company's Whole Foods Market subsidiary, 19,816 tested positive for the virus or were presumed to have Covid-19 between March 1 and September 19, the company said. The figure includes seasonal workers and those who may have been infected outside work, it said.
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