The tech giant said the rate is lower than in the wider population and defended its control measures.
Amazon said that more than 19,816 of its frontline workers in the US have contracted Covid-19 since March.
Amazon had faced criticism from employees, unions and elected officials, who have accused the company of putting employees' health at risk.Amazon has kept its facilities open throughout the pandemic to meet a surge in demand from shoppers stuck at home. The tech giant's sales soared 40% to $88.9bn in the three months ending in June, and its quarterly profit of $5.2bn was its biggest since the company started in 1994.In a blog post, Amazon argued that 33,952 workers would have contracted the virus if Amazon's infection rate had equalled the wider population's, when accounting for employees' age and geography.
Amazon said it introduced social distancing measures and additional cleaning, which"occurs across each site about every 90 minutes"."Mr Bezos... why on Earth would one of your partners compare your company to a drug dealer?""This information would be more powerful if there were similar data from other major employers to compare it to," Amazon said in the blog post.
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