Nuked An Amazon employee in Seattle has tested positive for the covid-19 coronavirus.’we’re supporting the affected employee who is in quarantine,’ the company says.
The employee is based out of the company’s’Brazil’ building, according to an internal memo sent to employees. They went home feeling unwell on Tuesday, February 25th and have n’t returned to Amazon premises since.
Amazon confirmed that two of its employees in Italy had contracted the virus and were in quarantine. The company had already requested that its nearly 800,000 employees halt non-essential travel within the US and elsewhere.
Nine people have died in Washington state from the novel coronavirus. It’s the only place in the U.S. where deaths have occurred. There’s an ongoing outbreak of the virus in nearby Kirkland, Washington.
