Walmart to screen workers for illness

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Walmart Inc. will start screening hourly employees for symptoms of covid-19 as they show up for work, including taking their temperatures, the company said Tuesday. Workers also will be asked "some basic health screening questions" on arrival for their shifts, the Bentonville-based retailer said in a blog post. These are the latest steps Walmart has taken over the past few weeks to help protect the health of its customers and employees. Other measures include shortening store hours for additional cleaning and disinfecting, using wipes and sprayers to disinfect carts, installing signage to encourage social distancing and beginning to install sneeze guards at pharmacies and checkout registers....

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