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About 20,000 employees of the e-commerce multinational Amazon, in the United States, have been infected with the new coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, according to figures published by the company.
The company indicated that of the 1,372,000 workers at Amazon and the supermarket chain Whole Foods (owned by Amazon), 19,816 obtained positive results in the tests with COVID-19, that is, 1.44% of the total.
The company led by Jeff Bezos stated that this contagion rate is 42% lower than the general population, suggesting that despite criticism of management during the pandemic, Amazon workers suffered proportionally less than the general population, by according to a release.
Amazon has seen an unprecedented increase in business since the start of the pandemic, due to restrictions and social distance, which forced physical stores to close and removed much of the competition from the digital platform.
In the United States alone, the company has added 175,000 new workers since the pandemic began responding to increased demand.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than a million deaths and more than 34 million cases of contagion worldwide, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
After Europe succeeded China as the center of the pandemic in February, the American continent is now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.
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