Tesla told to shut down California factory to help fight the coronavirus

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Tesla is not exempt from the San Francisco Bay Area’s new coronavirus shelter-in-place order, and should suspend normal operations at its Fremont, California factory for three weeks, according to county officials and the local Sheriff’s office. This comes after Tesla kept its factory open and running today, the first day that the new order was in place.

The shelter-in-place order was announced yesterday by the leaders of six counties in the Bay Area as part of a collective effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Citizens were asked not to leave their homes except for “essential activities” like buying food, and “nonessential businesses” were ordered to shut down to further discourage the spread of the virus.

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