Tesla Wants China Staff to Stay in Factory Bubble Until Mid-June


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(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc. plans to keep employees at its Shanghai factory working in a so-called closed loop system -- where staff are ferried to and from work and tested for Covid-19 regularly -- until mid-June, people familiar with the matter said, even as Chinese authorities move to ease wider lockdown restrictions in the city. Thousands of the electric car maker’s workers have been sleeping on the floor of Tesla’s factory south of Shanghai doing 12-hour shifts, six days a week, to reboot production after a weeks-long pause because of the lockdown. Tesla wants to move those workers into a...