Amazon has asked the US health authority Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that employees of the company give preference to Covid – 19 be vaccinated. In Germany, the company is meanwhile confronted with allegations of inadequate protection against infections in its branches.

The employees in the Amazon warehouses, -Data centers and grocery stores should get the vaccine as early as possible, according to the Wall Street Journal in a letter from the online retailer to the CDC. Amazon thinks that its 800. 000 employees in the US are an important part of the crisis Have taken on the task and mostly could not work in the home office.

Vaccination priorities Has the corona vaccine developed by the companies Biontech and Pfizer recently received emergency approval. The CDC advises that sufficient doses of the vaccine are not immediately available for all people in the United States. People who get vaccinated first should include those who work in healthcare or in major industries, those at high risk for severe Covid – 19 – secondary diseases and people aged from 65 years.

According to the report, Amazon is not alone in this. Executives from the food, restaurant, aviation and utility industries have also argued that their employees are important to the economy functioning while at a higher risk of being exposed to the virus.

In the first ten months of this year, Amazon had almost 430 worldwide. 000 new employees were hired and the company’s own workforce increased by 50 percent. The US online retailer is considered one of the winners of the corona crisis.