Amazon confirms COVID-19 death of worker from a warehouse where employees complained social distancing was not enforced
The employee who died was last inside the distribution center in Jeffersonville, Indiana, on April 1. The company began checking workers there for signs of fever two days later.
At least seven Amazon employees are now confirmed to have died from COVID-19, including another death, announced Thursday, of an associate at a warehouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. "I didn't even find out via Amazon directly contacting me," they said. "I found out because of an online article."
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