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VW Eyes Keeping Shanghai Plant Open With Staff Sleeping On-Site

  • Company said to plan ‘closed-loop’ system to keep operating
  • Shanghai is locking down city in phases for mass Covid testing
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Volkswagen AG asked staff at its Shanghai plant to prepare sleeping bags and yoga mats so they can deploy a system that allows the company to continue to operate despite parts of the Chinese city being under a strict Covid-19 lockdown.

The arrangement will enable the plant, which VW runs with local partner SAIC Motor Corp., to run a so-called closed loop system when the west of the city is locked down for four days from April 1 for a mass testing blitz, people familiar with the matter said.