Amazon on Thursday said more than 19,000 of its workers have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the first time the tech giant has revealed such detailed data. The company said the number of positive cases is below what it expected.
since March and said it would be conducting 50,000 tests a day by November.
Based on the infection rate of the general population, Amazon said it would have expected 33,952 positive cases among a workforce of more than 1.3 million in the U.S. Instead, it said 19,816 employees have tested positive or been presumed positive. The number includes employees at Whole Foods Market, which Amazon owns.
The U.S. has had about 2,180 cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 people, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Amazon’s infection rate would be about 1,442 per 100,000 workers, according to Wall Street Journal calculations.
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