TORONTO – Amazon’s largest plant in Brampton, Ontario has been shut down due to an ongoing investigation by the Peel Public Health Department. The facility’s at least 618, out of 5,000 employees have been infected with corona. As a result, all the employees have been asked to go on voluntary isolation for two weeks.
News sources reported, after Friday midnight, all employees of the plant located at 6050 Heritage Road in Brampton have been asked to remain in voluntary isolation until March 26 due to a massive corona transmission. This move came in effect as Covid-19 is expected to be spread widely, according to a Peel Public Health statement. In the last few weeks, corona transmission has been declined in the region.
However, the chief health officer of Peel, Dr. Lawrence Loh said, there have been 240 corona infections in the region in recent weeks, among which 10 with variants infected.
Earlier this week, nine bus drivers on the Brampton Transit bus routes have been infected by Corona, and the Brampton City authority partially closed some routes.
To this, Amazon transported its own employees with chartered buses. But, Dr. Lawrence Loh said, no specific transmission link has been found yet, especially on the 511 bus route surrounding the Amazon plant. The Amazon plant has been declared closed to ‘prevent a worse situation’.
Dave Bauer, a spokesman for the Amazon plant said, ‘everything has been done to keep everyone from the scourge of the pandemic, with 100 percent of its employees being tested.’ But in his words, overall it will have a temporary effect on our buyers.
Meanwhile, ahead of the closure of the Amazon project on Friday night, Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown said that, although Amazon is a large company internationally, health and safety of the residents are much paramount. I am glad that the public health authorities have taken appropriate measures. Even though the impact of the infection in the community is under control, the spread of the infection in the Amazon is not isolated. To him, it is possible to overcome the situation by closing the plant. And, “a lot of our small businesses have been shuttered for far too long,” he said.
