Hyundai has shut down a factory in South Korea, after a worked was found positive for coronavirus.
The closed factory is in Ulsan,producing various SUVs of the Korean car maker, including the Santa Fe, Tucson, Palisade and the recently revealed Genesis GV80.
The car maker has also placed colleagues who came in contact with the infected worker in self-quarantine and has taken action to have them tested for the virus, Reuters reports.
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Hyundai didn’t say when the factory will re-open, only adding that they are disinfecting the facility. The Korean car maker has five factories in Ulsan with an annual production capacity of 1.4 million vehicles, or 30 percent of their global production. Ulsan is the world’s biggest car complex, with Hyundai employing there 34,000 workers.
Ulsan is also less than one hour away from Daegu, the country’s epicenter of the outbreak. South Korea has currently the most coronavirus cases outside China, with the latest total number of infected people sitting at 2,022.
Samsung also had to shut down one of its phone factories in the country during the past weekend, following the discovery of a worker that was infected by the virus, but they resumed production on Monday.
Share prices of Hyundai went down by 5 percent after the news broke, dealing another setback to the Korean automaker after slowly restarting production at local plants affected by a shortage of parts from China amid the coronavirus outbreak.
