Amazon, the largest online retailer in the United States, reported that more than 19,000 of its frontline employees across the United States were infected with COVID-19, accounting for 1.44% of the total. This was released by CNA on Friday afternoon, October 2, 2020.
Of the 1,372,000 front-line employees, 19,816 have been tested positive for COVID-19 as of March 1, according to Amazon. Until September 19. However, the rate of infection is 42 percent lower than previously thought, while previously estimated that more than 33,900 employees could be infected with COVID-19. .
The disclosure of the COVID-19 outbreak above is a rare sight that has had a devastating effect on Amazon employees in the United States. Some employees say Amazon has put its employees' health at risk by continuing to run its company as the global epidemic (COVID-19) continues to plague. However, Amazon still decided to continue to run its company with a number of measures, including body temperature monitoring, safety gaps and other safety procedures for its employees.
Amazon also encouraged other businesses to report comparable figures and even said it would expand the COVID-19 test to 50,000 US employees in the United States. One day to help prevent the spread of the disease.
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