Tesla and Alameda County came to an agreement in May allowing the company to restart production if it adhered to strict social distancing and took extra precautions to avoid exposing workers to the illness. ADADAs part of the agreement struck allowing Tesla to reopen on May 18, Tesla would have to report all positive cases to the Alameda County Public Health Department. But because Tesla restarted production a week earlier, there could have been cases that were never reported to the county because Tesla was “not required to directly report known cases” before the agreement, county officials said. There were no known workplace-related infections of county residents associated with Tesla, said county spokeswoman Neetu Balram in an email. Musk first defied the rules in March by keeping the plant open before local officials declared Tesla’s vehicle production was not essential and must come to a halt.

Source: Washington Post June 09, 2020 12:00 UTC