Renault Detects 32 Asymptomatic COVID-19 Cases at Casablanca Plant During Mass Testing

The French manufacturer, in a press release posted on its website, indicated that the first wave of tests carried out on 300 employees recorded 32 "asymptomatic" cases, ruling out the hypothesis of virus contamination within the Somaca plant, reports AFP.

According to the same media, this screening campaign, which also takes into account workers at the Tangier site, aims to test all the staff present.

After several weeks of shutdown, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the automaker, which employs nearly 12,000 people in Morocco, including around 1,500 in Casablanca, partially resumed its industrial activities in early May. In the first quarter, the group saw its sales fall by 25.9% to 672,962 vehicles in a global market down 24.6%, according to the group’s initial results for 2020.

Meanwhile, the two-billion-euro savings plan that Renault is due to unveil at the end of May in response to the collapse in its sales has raised concerns about the future of its outsourced sites in the kingdom’s media. On the French government side, the priority is to preserve the domestic production first and foremost, we learn!