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Volkswagen China shuts two plants in Tianjin due to COVID-19 outbreaks -Breaking

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© Reuters. FILEPHOTO: The Volkswagen logo was pictured on a production line in Wolfsburg (Germany), March 1, 2019. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File photo

BEIJING (Reuters) – Volkswagen (DE) Group’s China unit stated Thursday that the company had closed a plant in Tianjin it shares with FAW Group and a component plant due to COVID-19 outbreaks.

A spokesperson for Reuters stated that “Due the recent COVID-19 epidemics both FAW-VW vehicle plants and VW Automatic Transmission Tianjin components factory were shut down since Monday.”

“Both plants performed COVID-19 tests twice this week for all employees and we are currently waiting for results. We are hopeful of resuming production as soon as possible and catching up with the lost production. We place the highest priority on our employees’ health and wellbeing.

Tianjin in northern China, located at 100km (62 miles), from Beijing, has reported 41 cases of domestically transmitted diseases with confirmed symptoms Wednesday. This is an increase from 33 days earlier. Data from the National Health Commission was available on Thursday.

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