Seattle’s Amazon postpones annual Prime Day sale in India as pandemic circumstances soar

Late Friday, a spokesman for Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest online retailer, said Seattle-based retail Goliath had decided not to hold its annual Prime Day sale in India amid a record surge in pandemic cases.

In fact, India, the fifth largest economy in the world by nominal GDP (gross domestic product) and third largest by PPP (purchasing power parity), had more than 1.5 million new infections in the past week with a second wave of pandemic in the country, as health experts continue to be a double mutant variant named B.1.167.2 were responsible for the most recent round of the outbreak, which apparently rocked the country’s entire health system with the death toll of 4,000 a day.

In the midst of such a deadly outbreak in the world’s second most populous country with running out of beds and being oxygenated, Amazon, Google and several local companies reportedly had rushed to help the country’s health system with a range of measures that Ranging from Funding to Funding Commit to providing oxygen to power critical medical devices.

However, a CNBC report had announced late in the day that Amazon.com Inc. had decided to end its Prime Day event in India this year. This was an important facade for Amazon to market its Prime membership, which was only offered to Amazon Prime members who usually experience faster shipping and media streaming service alongside products at a heavily discounted price at the Prime Day event.

Amazon.com Inc. is pausing Prime Day event in India amid a pandemic

Additionally, Amazon.com Inc – founded and run by the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, with a net worth of $ 192.3 billion to date – had to hold the event every July to increase sales as noted above announce an alternate date for Prime Day sales in India.