Tesla Inc. is isolating thousands of workers in disused factories and an old military camp in China to ensure they’re Covid-19 free, part of a large-scale plan by the electric-car maker to ramp up production at its plant in Shanghai as the city emerges from lockdown.
The staff will be used to create a second shift at Tesla’s Gigafactory south of Shanghai -- which was shut down for weeks from late March because of the city’s lockdown -- recently resuming some production under a special, so-called closed-loop system approved by the authorities.
