The new crown pneumonia epidemic continues to spread in the United States. With the recent increase in the number of employee infections, Amazon (AMZN-US) Announced the closure of the warehouse in northern New Jersey, and is expected to continue until December 26.
Related employees recently received news that the PNE5 plant in New Jersey will be temporarily closed. Amazon spokesperson Lisa Levandowski said in a statement that Amazon employees will still receive due compensation after the factory is closed, and pointed out that the closure of the PNE5 warehouse as a sorting center will not cause serious damage to the company’s operations or distribution. influences.
Levandowski said that through Amazon’s internal new crown pneumonia test, it was found that the number of asymptomatic confirmed cases in the PNE5 plant in northern New Jersey was increasing. Out of cautious consideration, the company has voluntarily closed the site until December 26.
“That’s why we built this testing system to identify asymptomatic cases and ensure that the company can act quickly to prevent the spread of the epidemic,” Levandowski said.
However, Levandowski did not immediately answer questions about the total number of confirmed cases at the PNE5 plant or whether the plant will perform additional cleaning and disinfection during the shutdown period.
Amazon revealed in October that between March 1 and September 19, Amazon had a total of 19,816 presumptive or confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia among the approximately 1.37 million Amazon and its Whole Food supermarket front-line employees in the United States. 1.44% of the total number of employees. At that time, the company said that compared with the American population, the company’s employee infection rate was 42% lower than originally expected.
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