Elon Musk’s Tesla has been issued an order to keep its manufacturing facility in Fremont shut due to the high number of cases reported in California and San Francisco. Fremont lies near the San Francisco bay area, where more than 9500 cases have been reported along with the fact that the deaths have crossed 342.
The order came as a result of their CEO informing staff about operating in limited capacity from Friday.
While talking about this to the press, Alameda County, under whose jurisdiction the factory falls, said that although they welcome Tesla’s reopening as a proactive measure, considering the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus in that area, they are being advised against doing so in order to protect their employees and the community.
This comes at a time where Tesla had already shut down its operations in Shanghai following the outbreak.
This isn’t the first time that Mr Musk has gotten into trouble because of his tweets. A recent tweet about how “Tesla’s stock price was too high”, caused it to drop to nearly 12% in half an hour. However, it recovered later.