Shanghai factories struggle to reopen as COVID lockdown persists

Companies reopening plants in locked-down Shanghai are booking hotel rooms to house laborers and transforming empty workshops into on location isolation facilities as authorities ask them to continue work while complying to intense COVID-19 checks. Many organizations including multinationals Tesla and 3M have resumed factories for the Chinese economic hub under local guidelines expecting them to isolate laborers inside a "closed-loop". Without on-site living space, U.S.- based 3M has been reserving hotels for its factory laborers, complying to closed-loop rules by transporting them between the plant and their lodgings, said its China president, Ding Hongyu. But finding rooms is difficult…