20 Thousand Amazon Employees Caught Covid-19!
20,000 Amazon employees caught Covid-19.
Amazon announced the number of cases of first-time employees.
US online trade and technology giant Amazon has published the number of employees caught in the Coronavirus (Covid-19) on the company's official website. The company announced that approximately 20 thousand employees have tested positive for Covid-19 since March, when the impact of the epidemic was fully felt.
Reminding that it has more than 1.3 million employees across the USA, the company stated that the rate of infection of its employees is 42 percent lower than the general population rate in the country.
In the company's statement, while the number of employees who died due to coronavirus is not given; It has found an echo in the US press, where at least 10 employees have died due to the coronavirus.
During the pandemic, Amazon was criticized for not taking enough precautions for the health of warehouse employees, and even those working in its businesses in some states protested the company; Many of the employees involved in the action were also dismissed.
The coronavirus epidemic, which has pushed the country's economy to serious losses since March, has been in favor of the giant company; During the period in question,
Amazon recruited more than 100,000 new workers.