And the packages? Employees of various Amazon warehouses test positive for COVID-19

San Francisco.

Employees of up to eleven different warehouses in Amazon in U.S have tested positive for COVID-19, at a time when the e-commerce company It is experiencing an unprecedented increase in activity, with deliveries to homes soaring.

The Seattle firm (state of Washington) has not confirmed all the cases – which have been revealed as they became known through the local media – but it has admitted positive for coronavirus in workers at four of its centers.

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The cases recognized by Amazon are two in separate warehouses in the state of New York and two others in Illinois and New Jersey, while the local press has reported cases also in facilities in Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, California, Oklahoma, Michigan and Texas.

In all these centers, employees have been quarantined and in some very specific cases, the facilities have been closed, but the vast majority of warehouses in Amazon Not only are they still open, but also the activity of these days is being frenetic and the number of workers has even increased.

With much of USA under confinement orders and most closed retail businesses, e-commerce – of which Amazon remains hegemonic – it is experiencing an increase in activity even higher than that of the Christmas bells (traditionally, the moment of greatest sales).

However, several Internet users have resorted to social networks to express doubts about the hygiene of the packages they receive at home and if they could be transmitting elements of the virus, while some Amazon employees have openly criticized those that, in their opinion These are insufficient measures by the company to guarantee its safety in the midst of the pandemic.

In mid-March, the firm that directs Jeff Bezos announced that it would hire 100,000 workers in the United States to respond to the sharp rise in demand and that it would also increase the wages of warehouse and distribution personnel.

In United States, Amazon pays a minimum of $ 15 an hour to its workers, a figure that in times of COVID-19 It has increased to $ 17 an hour.

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