NEW: Amazon Assessing Workers for Fevers, Issuing Masks

Amid a rising chorus of demands for action from concerned Amazon employees, union leaders, and politicians, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today it has begun using temperature checks and handing out masks to warehouse workers after the COVID-19 coronavirus sickened people at several of the company's facilities. Dave Clark, Senior VP of Worldwide Operations, provided details on Amazon's blog.

Clark noted Amazon was performing temperature checks at a few locations on Sunday, March 29. But now, the company is steadily increasing the fever screening's scope, taking the temperatures of approximately 100,000 workers as of today. It expects to be scanning all of its employees at locations, including Whole Foods, both in the USA and Europe by the start of next week.

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