Citing latest government directive on the COVID-19, the company explained that it will be extending the suspension of production of cars till further notice.
Meanwhile, Hyundai Motor Co’s Czech car plant was the first in the central European country to get back to work after a three-week outage, potentially easing some of the strain on the hard-hit economy.
The car sector accounts for a tenth of economic output and a quarter of exports in the Czech Republic, and employs 150,000 directly and even more indirectly.
All three of the country’s major carmakers have been offline since around the middle of March as part of efforts to curb the coronavirus and authorities have forecast at least a 5% economic contraction this year.
