The Elon Musk-owned rocket company headquarters has had at least one other outbreak during the pandemic.
At least 132 staffers at the SpaceX rocket factory in Hawthorne have tested positive for COVID-19 amid a large, active outbreak that coincides with a busy month of launches for the aerospace manufacturer.as part of a summary of COVID-19 cases throughout the county.
Musk initially criticized reaction to the pandemic as “dumb” and overblown, and for a time, a Bay Area Tesla automotive plant remained open last year in defiance of statewide lockdown ordersMore than 400 workers at the plant tested positive for COVID-19 from May — when it reopened — through December,SpaceX and the L.A. County health department did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday, and the circumstances surrounding the most recent outbreak were not immediately known.
Early Saturday, SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Lompoc, Calif. Hours later, the company launched a Turkish communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Tesla will temporarily end production at its Fremont assembly plant beginning March 23 to comply with Bay Area restrictions due to coronavirus.
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