Amazon.com Inc. has been ordered to close a facility outside Toronto for two weeks as public health officials worry about rising Covid-19 cases inside the complex.While the rate of Covid-19 infection has been falling in the Peel region in the past few weeks, the rate inside the Brampton, Ontario, fulfillment center “has been increasing significantly," the local health authority said Friday in a statement.
Every employee at the site may have experienced “high-risk exposure," the agency said.“This Amazon facility is in a vulnerable community and employs thousands of people," Lawrence C.