The giant “Amazon” company in the field of e-commerce confirmed, Thursday, that the tests conducted for its employees in the United States showed that 19,816 of them were infected with the emerging coronavirus.
The group developed its own screening system and carried out “thousands of tests” daily, noting that between March 1 and September 19, it employed about 1.37 million people for its website activities, or for the stores of its “Whole Foods” company.
Thus, the ratio of injuries to total workers is 1.44 percent, which is less than the proportion of injuries in the United States as a whole, to the total population, which is 2.06 percent, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The company’s statistics do not include those who work for it.
Amazon intends to increase its capacity to 50,000 checks per day at 650 sites by next November.
The group’s employees carried out a strike at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, and demonstrations in front of its warehouses, demanding more protection from the virus.
The group has also been criticized for not publishing, to date, any casualty statistics for its employees.
And “Amazon” confirmed that it distributed more than 100 million masks to its employees, and took a series of preventive measures, including commitment to social distancing inside warehouses, checking body temperature and measures for sterilization.
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