Amazon says that nearly 20,000 frontline workers in the US have contracted COVID-19, the equivalent of 1.44 per cent of its total workforce.
Amazon disclosed the figures, which cover both Amazon and Whole Foods workers, in a blog post this morning following months of pressure from labour rights activists demanding it made the number of infected workers public.
Despite tens of thousands of employees having contracted the virus, Amazon says that its own analysis suggested the infection rate was 42 per cent lower than expected based on infection rates across the US.
