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Tesla hasn’t been given the ‘green light’ to reopen Fremont factory, health official says

Tesla has not been given the “green light” to open its factory in Fremont, California, Alameda County Health Officer Dr. Erica Pan said in a videostreamed town hall meeting Friday. Tesla has made plans to open as early as Friday in defiance of the county’s extended stay-at-home order. Tesla said…

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Tesla prepares to bring back 30% of Fremont factory workers in spite of county order

Tesla is aiming to ramping up ‘limited operations’ at its factory in Fremont, California, a decision that puts the company and its CEO Elon Musk in direct conflict with a stay-at-home order in Alameda County. Employees received two emails — one from Musk and another from the Valerie Workman, the…

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Tesla email reveals two employees have tested positive for COVID-19

Two Tesla employees, who had been working at home for nearly two weeks, have tested positive for COVID-19, according to an internal email sent Thursday morning by the company’s head of environmental, health, and safety department and viewed by TechCrunch . The employees were not symptomatic in the office, and…

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Alphabet’s Verily launches its California COVID-19 test screening site in a limited pilot

Alphabet -owned health technology company Verily has launched the COVID-19 screening site that was first misrepresented by President Trump as a broadly focused coronavirus web-based screening and testing utility developed by Google . After a flurry of blog posts by Google and Verily over the weekend, as well as a…

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