The new coronavirus has infected about 500 Delta Air Lines employees and claimed the lives of another 10, the airline’s chief executive officer announced.
“We have had approximately 500 employees who tested positive for COVID-19. Fortunately, the vast majority have recovered,” Chief Executive Ed Bastian said during a recent shareholders meeting, Newsweek reported Wednesday. “Unfortunately, we have lost 10 employees to the disease.”
The new coronavirus has infected about 500 Delta Air Lines employees and claimed the lives of another 10, the airline’s chief executive officer announced.
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It is unclear what positions the late and infected workers had with the airline.
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A Delta spokesperson explained that the latest coronavirus statistics were “inclusive of all the positive cases reported to us since March of our 90,000 employees worldwide.”
“Since the initial report in March, Delta has seen a significant reduction in employee COVID-19 positive tests and is currently tracking five times less than the national average,” the spokesperson told the outlet.
Going forward, Bastian emphasized that the operator is working “very closely” with Quest Diagnostics and Mayo Clinic to finally screen the 90,000 employees for COVID-19 and its antibodies.
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Going forward, Bastian stressed that the operator is working “very closely” with Quest Diagnostics and Mayo Clinic to finally screen the 90,000 employees for COVID-19 and its antibodies, a decision announced earlier this month.
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“And by getting a good baseline, we will be able to provide better protection for our people and then eventually certainly our clients as we go,” he said.
Delta revealed Monday that it would restart flights between Seattle and Shanghai on June 25. The airline is the first airline in the United States to resume travel to China since flights were temporarily suspended in February in response to the outbreak.
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