Whole Foods confirms multiple employees at Silver Lake location in Los Angeles were diagnosed with COVID-19

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• The Whole Foods grocery store in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles is reporting multiple cases of COVID-19.
• A spokesperson for the Amazon-owned company confirmed the cases in a statement to Business Insider.
• "We've been working closely with our store Team Members,  and are supporting the diagnosed Team Members, who are in quarantine," the company said.
• The Silver Lake location opened in 2016 as a "365," a slightly more affordable version of the grocery chain. Amazon killed off the brand in 2019, two years after acquiring the company.
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Multiple workers at a Whole Foods in Los Angeles — its first "365" branded grocery store in the country — have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

A spokesperson for the Amazon-owned company confirmed the previously unreported cases in a statement to Business Insider, saying that "Team Members in our Silver Lake store have been diagnosed with COVID-19."

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