Mexican unit

Volkswagen AG’s Mexican unit said about two per cent of its workers tested for coronavirus had contracted the disease at some point.

This underlined the challenge faced by automakers in reopening factories before the pandemic has peaked in Mexico.

Volkswagen last Tuesday began sending workers, in reduced numbers, back to its factory in the city of Puebla, where the German automaker, and its luxury brand unit, Audi have major plants.

Many other major carmakers, especially from the United States and Japan, had resumed operations in other parts of Mexico a couple of weeks earlier.

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