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Battery Giant CATL Isolates Workers to Avoid Covid Shutdown
- Workers will be shuttled between dormitories, factory
- Move comes amid outbreak of Covid-19 cases in Ningde
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Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd., the world’s biggest maker of electric-vehicle batteries, has implemented a so-called closed loop for workers at its main factory in China in a bid to avoid the kind of Covid-19 shutdowns hurting Tesla Inc. and Volkswagen AG.
Workers will be shuttled between their dormitories and the factory in Ningde, where an outbreak of Covid cases has prompted the local government to tighten prevention and control measures, the company, better known as CATL, said in a statement Sunday.