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India business most affected due to coronavirus lockdown: Amazon CFO

Last month, the government said e-commerce platforms would be allowed to sell only essential items during the lockdown

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The Seattle-based firm has been rolling out many initiatives to woo the sellers and deliver essential goods to the customers in India

Peerzada Abrar Bengaluru
At a time when the coronavirus (Covid-19) has brought disruption for thousands of companies, Amazon on Friday said that the biggest impact internationally for the world's largest online retailer has been in India. The country is going through the world's biggest pandemic lockdown. While pointing out that the e-commerce firm is fulfilling only essential goods such as groceries, which has cut back a lot of its offerings, Brian T Olsavsky, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Amazon, said during an earnings call that the company would further expand in the country when the Indian government announces that it