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Mexican hospitals turn people away; Russia cases approach 200,000; German football league setback as Dynamo Dresden team quarantined. Follow the latest updates
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- Australia – live news
France and Spain, two of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus, are preparing to ease out of lockdown, as the number of cases worldwide passes 4 million.
Amid the barrage of deaths, some European countries cited signs of progress they said justified taking slow steps back toward some version of normality, French news agency AFP reports.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is threatening to pull his company’s factory and headquarters out of California after local officials stopped him reopening the electric car factory due to the Covid-19 risk, Associated Press reports.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court, Tesla accused the Alameda County Health Department of overstepping federal and state coronavirus restrictions when it stopped Tesla from restarting production at its factory in Fremont. The lawsuit contends Tesla factory workers are allowed to work during California’s stay-at-home order because the facility is considered “critical infrastructure.”
Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately. If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be dependen on how Tesla is treated in the future. Tesla is the last carmaker left in CA.
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