Hyundai is closing!

South Korea's largest automaker is at the center of the coronavirus epidemic. As a result, the Hyundai concern closed the production of cars at one of its five factories. This is the largest of all the brand's capacities.

What caused the plant to stop? As it turned out, one of the workers discovered the coronavirus virus. The test for it was positive. This was reported to the public by the magazine Automotive News Europe.

PE at the factory

Hyundai auto complex is located in Ulsan. The staff numbers over thirty thousand people. The employee who stirred up production works at a facility that assembles the Tucson, Palisade, Santa Fe, Genesis GV80 SUVs.

Earlier, the company had to stop production of its cars due to the banal lack of components from China. Now I had to stop work again, but for another reason - a virus.

Troubleshooting

Quarantine was immediately introduced. Employees who were in contact with the infected were isolated. The plant itself is disinfected. Unfortunately for car enthusiasts, the launch date of the car factory is still unknown. If this situation continues at the plant, then Hyundai will suffer huge losses. Today this production is one of the five capacities in the city of Ulsan, which produce 1,4 million units of cars per season, which is 30 percent of the world production of this brand.

Local authorities regularly provide news on the virus situation. At the moment, South Korea has registered 2022 cases of infection. Of these, 256 people became infected on the last Friday of February.