As Instacart begins to warn workers that they might have been exposed to COVID-19, an employee at the Whole Foods in the Upper Haight has tested positive for the virus.

The same day that workers at Whole Foods grocery stores across the country called in sick to call for greater protection against the threat of the new coronavirus (COVID-19), news broke that a worker at the Amazon-owned chain’s location on Haight Street has tested positive for the virus.

KQED reports that workers at the store were told in-person or via recorded message on Saturday, and that the employee was last at the store on March 15, but no update on their condition was provided. Meanwhile, some shoppers with Instacart, which also saw strike action this week, tell CNet that they’ve gotten messages warning them that they might have been exposed to COVID-19 after trips to stores with employees that have tested positive for the illness.

Whole Foods tells the Wall Street Journal that “there was not an elevated level of absenteeism at the chain’s more than 500 stores on Tuesday and that they all operated without interruption.” That’s true for the San Francisco Whole Foods, as well: though a spokesperson for the store says the Haight location was cleaned and disinfected, there was no change to business hours after the news of the infected employee was announced.

“They send us an email of their sales every day and they are killing it right now,” one employee told KQED. “Just on a store level, they’ve already made enough to probably cover everyone’s PTO for two weeks while they sanitize the store and make sure no one else has it.”

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