- An Amazon's Oklahoma City general manager told employees in a voicemail on March 23 that an Amazon fulfillment center worker in the city was diagnosed with coronavirus.
- The infected associate last was at the OKC1 fulfillment center on March 18, according to the voice memo.
- Amazon is working with the local health department to determine what the effect may be on other employees, according to the voicemail shared with Business Insider.
- One supply chain professor warned in a recent interview with The Atlantic that the effect of more Amazon employees getting diagnosed with coronavirus could be "catastrophic" considering the amount of people and goods they interact with — particularly amid a historic boost in online order.
- Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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An Amazon employee at one of the mega-retailer's Oklahoma City fulfillment centers was diagnosed with coronavirus, according to a voice memo shared with employees in the area and obtained by Business Insider.
On Monday evening, the workers in Amazon's Oklahoma City region received a voicemail from the general manager, Vikrant Ahuja, in which he said that an associate at OKC1, the name of that fulfillment center, is receiving medical care for a coronavirus diagnosis.
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