CAPTION: View of the finished VW vehicles waiting for shipment on a large parking lot in front of the Volkswagen plant. (picture alliance/dpa)
Carmaker Volkswagen plans to restart vehicle production in Germany at the end of April.
The factories in the cities of Wolfsburg, Emden and Hanover are set to restart on April 27, sources in the company said on Wednesday, but at greatly reduced capacity.
Before Easter, the company announced that it would restart production again at its supplier plants this week. In some of the component manufacturing plants, an already operating subsidiary company was to be expanded to ensure supply to Chinese production plants.
A total of 1,700 employees at locations in Braunschweig, Kassel, Salzgitter, Chemnitz and Hanover are affected.
In production, "processes would be changed so that protection against transmission of the virus was the top priority," General Works Council Chairman Bernd Osterloh announced ahead of the restart.
When in doubt, less would be produced in preference to "taking a risk somewhere."
"Where the minimum distance of 1.5 metres cannot be maintained, the colleagues wear masks," he said.
Volkswagen recently extended the closure of its core brand plants in Germany to April 19 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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