Amazon to shut down Queens, N.Y. hub after worker tests positive for coronavirus

An image of an Amazon delivery truck as photographed on March 18, 2020 in Plainview, New York. (File/AFP)

• The company said it will send associates home with full pay

Amazon.com Inc. said on Thursday that one of its associates had tested positive for coronavirus at its Queens, New York delivery station and it will temporarily shut down the hub for additional sanitation.

The company said it will send associates home with full pay.