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KOMPAS.com – Spread corona virus in the world it is still happening. Launch Worldometers, America is still the country with the number of cases Covid-19 the most, namely 7.4 million until Friday (2/10/2020) afternoon.
Amazon said that nearly 20,000 of its workers have tested positive for Covid-19.
It is estimated, that more than 19,816 frontline workers in the US have contracted Covid-19 since last March.
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That number is equivalent to 1.44 percent of the 1.37 million workers at Amazon and its subsidiary, Whole Foods.
Amazon has faced criticism from employees, unions and elected officials, who accuse the company of endangering employees’ health, the BBC reported on Friday (2/10/2020).
But the online business giant said the infection rate was lower than expected.
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Stay open during a pandemic
Amazon itself is known to have kept its facilities open during the pandemic to meet a surge in demand from shoppers who are stuck at home when it is lockdown.
Staying open has proven to be very profitable for the company e-commerce, and has added to the wealth of the founder, Jeff Bezos, who is the richest man in the world.
Sales from the giant company surged 40 percent to $ 88.9 billion in the three months to June 2020.
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Meanwhile, its quarterly profit of US $ 5.2 billion was the largest since the company started in 1994.
In a blog post, Amazon argued that 33,952 workers would have contracted the virus if Amazon’s infection rates matched the broader population, when taking employees’ ages and geographies into account.
This figure includes seasonal staff and those who may be infected outside of work.
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Urge further research
There have been at least eight cases of Amazon employees who died as a result of being infected with Covid-19 this year, but the company did not provide any updates on this.
In addition, the company said the rate of infection among employees was 42 percent lower than projected, when compared with the population average in the US.
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Amazon is challenging other companies to publish their own Covid-19 statistics.
“This information would be stronger if there was similar data from other large companies to compare it with,” Amazon said in a post on its blog.
Athena, the coalition opposing the Amazon on a wide range of labor, planning and environmental issues, called on officials to investigate further.
“Amazon is letting Covid-19 spread like wildfire,” Athena Director Dania Rajendra said in a statement.
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Donald Trump and wife positive for Covid-19
US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania shortly after arriving back in Washington DC following a nine-day overseas working visit.-
Not only are tens of thousands of Amazon employees infected with Covid-19, US President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania Trump also exposed Covid-19.
On Twitter, he stated that he and his wife had contracted a virus that attacks the respiratory tract.
In his tweet on Twitter, the US President said since January 2017 that he would undergo a home quarantine. “Together we will pass it,” he said.
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Previously, Trump’s senior assistant and adviser, Hope Hicks, was reported to have tested positive for the corona virus.
Trump and Melania must also undergo self-quarantine.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump confirmed that Hope Hicks’ senior assistant has tested positive for Covid-19.
Hicks, who reportedly had many opportunities close to Trump this week, has followed the US President’s work schedule.
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