Amazon Temporarily Closes Warehouse in Kentucky After Workers Test Positive for Covid-19

   By Sebastian Herrera

Amazon.com Inc. has temporarily closed a warehouse in Shepherdsville, Ky., after multiple workers tested positive for Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. An Amazon spokeswoman said the company will re-open the facility on Wednesday after it can be cleaned.

The Shepherdsville facility, which employs roughly 1,000 workers, is at least the second U.S. warehouse to have temporarily closed in recent days after employees contracted the virus. Last week, a delivery center in Queens, N.Y., became the first Amazon warehouse in the U.S. to temporarily close due to a worker testing positive for Covid-19. That facility reopened the next day, according to workers. Earlier, five Amazon warehouse employees--three in Spain and two in Italy--had tested positive for the disease.

Amazon said it has followed guidelines from local officials about the operations of its buildings and has taken increased measures to clean facilities. The company is also offering workers who test positive for Covid-19 two weeks of paid time off and is allowing workers to take an unlimited amount of unpaid time off through April.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

March 24, 2020 13:54 ET (17:54 GMT)

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