Shanghai factories scramble to reopen as COVID lockdown lingers

Companies reopening factories in locked-down Shanghai are booking hotel rooms to house workers and turning vacant workshops into on-site isolation facilities as authorities urge them to resume work while complying with tough COVID-19 curbs. Hundreds of companies, including multinationals Tesla and 3M, have reopened factories in the Chinese economic hub under local guidelines requiring them to isolate workers inside a “closed loop”. But executives say they are not yet running at full capacity and describe the process as far from straightforward, given the logistical hassles of compliance, a lack of space, and having many workers remain stuck at home in…