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February 28, 2020 03:06 AM

Hyundai halts work at Korean factory after worker tests positive for coronavirus

Hyunjoo Jin and Heekyong Yang
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    Employees wearing masks to prevent the coronavirus are pictured at a Hyundai factory in Ulsan.

    SEOUL -- Hyundai Motor shut down a factory in South Korea on Friday after a worker tested positive for the new coronavirus.

    The factory  in Ulsan builds SUVs such as the Palisade, Tucson, Santa Fe and Genesis GV80.

    The closing dealt a fresh setback to Hyundai, which has gradually resumed production at local plants hit by a Chinese parts shortage in the wake of the virus outbreak.

    South Korea has the most infected people outside China, affecting companies like Samsung and Hyundai. South Korea on Friday reported 256 new cases, bringing the total number of infected to 2,022, as the world prepared for a global recession.

    "The company has also placed colleagues who came in close contact with the infected employee in self-quarantine and taken steps to have them tested for possible infection," Hyundai Motor said in a news release.

    The automaker said it was disinfecting the factory. It did not say when production would resume.

    Ulsan is less than an hour from Daegu, the epicenter of outbreak in Korea.

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    A Hyundai factory in Ulsan, where the automaker employs 34,000 workers in the world's biggest car production complex.

    Hyundai operates five car factories in Ulsan, which has an annual production capacity of 1.4 million vehicles, or nearly 30 percent of Hyundai's global production.

    Hyundai employs 34,000 workers there in the world's biggest car complex.

    A factory run by Hyundai supplier Seojin Industrial had been closed after the death of a virus-infected worker there. It reopened Wednesday.

    South Korea's tech giant Samsung Electronics shut down a phone factory in the southeastern city of Gumi over the past weekend after one of its workers tested positive. It resumed production on Monday.

    Meanwhile, South Korea's top carrier, Korean Air Lines, said on Friday it would cut the number of flights to the United States in March, as part of a plan to cut its global capacity by 11 percent that month.

    It plans to check temperatures of passengers traveling to the United States before boarding and said it would not allow anyone with a temperature higher than 37.5 Celsius to fly.

    One of its flight attendants who served the Incheon to Los Angeles route has tested positive for virus.

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