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According to foreign media reports, at Tesla's Tesla factory in Fremont, California, and the nearby seat production plant, some employees were diagnosed with COVID-19 a few days ago, and at least two employees were positive for the virus. It means that Tesla's factory, which has just been restarted, is in a certain situation again.

Tesla did not comment or respond to the report, so the details of the report are not known, such as the severity of the infection or how many people have contacted the diagnostics.

Tesla executives have held meetings to deal with the situation, and affected positive employees have been told to rest at home, while some employees who have been quarantined due to potential exposure to the virus have returned to work, according to reports citing people familiar with the matter.

According to sources, the two confirmed positive cases were at the seat assembly plant in Tesla Fremont, while the two affected employees were responsible for the morning shift and the evening shift, respectively, so the people contacted included a morning shift worker and an evening shift worker, which clearly made the source still have some concerns about the follow-up work.

In fact, due to the impact of the epidemic, production at Tesla's Fremont factory has been suspended since March 23, but as Tesla began to accept reservations from Model Y in March, and the suspension of production has undoubtedly affected the speed of new car production, so he has also made some plans to start production as soon as possible.

During this period, he repeatedly criticized the US home epidemic prevention order on Twitter, calling it "house arrest in disguise" and felt that the panic about the virus outweighed the danger of the virus itself. He also said that he would continue to work to lead by example. It is worth mentioning that Tesla's former safety director was fired because he reported to the company that the safety measures were not perfect and unsafe. So as to make people think that Musk is a boss who doesn't care about the safety of his employees.

Of course, under the epidemic, the global car companies affected by the huge decline in sales want to start work as soon as possible to achieve profit stop loss. As recently as May 12, Musk said on Twitter that the company had resumed production in violation of Alameda County regulations. The next day, Alameda County compromised and reached an agreement with Tesla that the company could restart Fremont production, but only if Tesla adhered to strict social isolation and took additional precautions to prevent workers from infecting COVID-19.

In any case, the suspension of production caused by the epidemic undoubtedly hit the automakers very hard, and Musk made these reactions. After all, it was not long before the company made a profit. The accelerated mass production and delivery of Model Y, which was originally more responsive to the market, can help the company's performance improve rapidly, but it is affected by the epidemic, and its global market is bound to be affected. Therefore, we hope to improve the performance by resuming work as soon as possible. But it also makes the boss known as "irresponsible".

Looking back at the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the Chinese market, Tesla's Shanghai factory resumed production only after stopping production for about 10 days, making it one of the earliest car companies in the country to resume production. Thanks to the relatively effective control of the epidemic in China, the sales of Tesla's domestic Model 3 have been rising in recent months. Data show that Tesla's domestic Model 3 sales in May were 11095, an increase of 205% from the previous month, and once again exceeded 10,000 per month.

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