Some staff, elected officials and unions in recent months have said Amazon put employees' health at risk by keeping warehouses open during the pandemic. Amazon said its rate of infection was 42% lower than expected when considering the virus' spread in the general population. It said it will expand virus testing to 50,000 US employees per day by November through internally built capacity. "Amazon allowed COVID-19 to spread like wildfire," coalition director Dania Rajendra said in a statement. Amazon said that out of its 1,372,000 frontline employees at Amazon and its Whole Foods Market subsidiary, 19,816 tested positive or were presumed to have COVID-19 between March 1 and Sept. 19.

Source: bd News24 October 01, 2020 23:48 UTC