{"id":25205,"date":"2020-10-03T06:18:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=25205"},"modified":"2020-10-03T06:18:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:18:52","slug":"nearly-20000-amazon-workers-positive-for-new-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=25205","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 20,000 Amazon Workers Positive for New Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>FRIDAY, Oct. 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Nearly 20,000 front-line Amazon workers in the United States have tested positive or been presumed positive for the new coronavirus, the company said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are from an analysis of data from March 1 to Sept. 19 on nearly 1.4 million workers at Amazon and Whole Foods Market nationwide, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The information was released after months of pressure from Amazon workers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/early_signs_and_symptoms_of_labor\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"dt\">labor<\/a> groups.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon said the infection rate of its employees is well below that of the general U.S. population, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"credits\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MedicalNews\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\" style=\"border: none;\"\/><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2019 HealthDay. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>                            <!--CONTINUEREADING--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=247410\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRIDAY, Oct. 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Nearly 20,000 front-line Amazon workers in the United States have tested positive or been presumed positive for the new coronavirus, the company said Thursday. The findings are from an analysis of data from March 1 to Sept. 19 on nearly 1.4 million workers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-life-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1601354401_fb-mnet-default.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}