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Almost 20,000 Amazon workers have tested positive for Covid-19

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Amazon has said that slightly more than 19,800 of its employees have tested positive for Covid-19 since the start of March. Data on the ecommerce giant's 1.37 million frontline workers, including those at its Whole Foods Market grocery stores in the United States, showed a lower infection rate than expected, Amazon said.

The release of the figure comes as some workers in logistics centers have criticised the company's safeguards to protect them from the pandemic as well as its reluctance to share information about colleagues who get infected.

Amazon has ramped up testing to 50,000 a day across 650 sites, according to the Seattle-based company. "Since the beginning of this crisis, we've worked hard to keep our employees informed, notifying

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