Amazon has increased its testing to 50,000 per day at 650 sites. (File)
San Francisco:
Amazon said on Thursday that just over 19,800 of its employees had tested positive for Covid-19 since the start of March.
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-than-expected infection rate, Amazon said.
The release of the figure comes as some logistics center workers criticized the company’s protective measures to protect them from the pandemic as well as its reluctance to share information about infected colleagues.
Amazon has increased its testing to 50,000 per day at 650 sites, according to the Seattle-based company.
“Since the start of this crisis, we have worked hard to keep our employees informed, informing them of every new case in their building,” Amazon said in a blog post sharing Covid-19 infection rates among its workers frontline.
If the rate of infection among Amazon and Whole Foods workers were the same as the general population of the United States, the number of cases would have exceeded 33,000, according to the company.
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