‘Health is our top priority’: Amazon says Seattle employee contracted coronavirus

Published March 4, 2020 3:48am ET



Retail giant Amazon announced that one of its Washington employees tested positive for coronavirus as cases of the illness spread in the Seattle area.

The company sent a message to employees in the area on Tuesday explaining that the worker felt sick a week earlier and has not returned to work since. The company said it was notified this Tuesday that the employee tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.

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