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Amazon Warehouse Workers to Mask Up Again as Virus Spreads
- Company has so far not forced employees to get vaccinated
- Amazon has been dismantling in-house Covid testing operation
A worker fulfills orders at an Amazon fulfillment center in Raleigh, North Carolina, on June 21.
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Amazon.com Inc. is ordering frontline U.S. employees to resume wearing masks at work regardless of vaccination status, joining the ranks of companies ramping up precautions in response to the spread of the Covid-19 delta variant.
The world’s largest online retailer said in a notice to employees on Friday that workers in its warehouses and other logistics depots in the U.S. must resume wearing masks beginning on Monday.