As of 10:00 CET on the 26th (17:00 GMT on the 26th), the global confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia amounted to 462,684 cases, with 49,219 new cases. There were 20,834 deaths and 2,401 new cases.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined it as a pandemic, and the inaction of multiple governments has caused the world to lose a valuable window of opportunity, which has once again hit the global auto industry hard.
What is the global impact of the pandemic on the auto industry? How will the automobile companies cope with the new crown epidemic? How will the upstream and downstream of the industry chain overcome the difficulties? How will the global automotive industry move forward? Auto Headline APP retrieves foreign media reports and launches a new column "Auto Enterprise Epidemic Map" to restore the latest news of the global auto industry every day.
This issue is the March 27th global automotive epidemic broadcast
The WHO daily epidemic report shows that as of 10:00 CET on March 26th (17:00 GMT on March 26th), the number of new confirmed cases of Crown Pneumonia outside of China has increased by 49,106 cases compared with the previous day to 380,723 cases; the number of deaths outside of China has increased by 2,395 cases compared with the previous day to 17,541 cases. 17,541 cases.
The first confirmed cases were reported in Mali, Guinea-Bissau, and the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis in the past 24 hours.
3 Overseas Vehicle Companies Build Masks in China
As of March 25, there were more than 200,000 confirmed cases of neococcal pneumonia in Europe. With the rampant spread of the new crown virus in Europe, the existing medical prevention and control equipment and materials within the countries of the European region began to face a shortage of the situation. As a result, the governments of these countries have been forced to ask their manufacturing plants and companies to switch over to producing the medical equipment and supplies needed to support the prevention and control of the epidemic in their countries.
And in the global automotive industry due to the outbreak of the epidemic and had to stop production, has entered the state of the resumption of production in China, obviously become the many car companies to save the straw. Overseas car companies have started Chinese factories to produce much-needed medical supplies. According to incomplete statistics, there have been three vehicle groups in China to produce masks, shipped to countries and regions around the world where the epidemic is serious.
On March 26, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced that its industrial equipment subsidiary Comau is advancing various production preparations for protective masks at its Chinese factories, with plans to produce more than 1 million per month.
It is expected that the production line will be installed this week, and the masks will begin to be put into production in the next few weeks for donation and distribution in China, Mexico, Canada, the United States, and other countries and regions around the world where there is a need.
Not coincidentally, the Volkswagen Group also said it had finalized an all-encompassing plan to aid Germany's healthcare system, which includes purchasing up to 10 million euros' worth of medical equipment (such as medical gowns, gloves, thermometers, diagnostic reagents, and respiratory machines) from China to be shipped to Germany, as well as manufacturing masks for Germany at a joint-venture plant in China.
In addition, in South Korea, where the outbreak has been severe, a spokesman for South Korea's Kia Motors Corp. said the company is considering making masks at its Chinese plant in an effort to prevent the spread of the epidemic.
The spokesman said the Chinese government's encouragement of automakers to make the masks might help Kia qualify and produce them at its Yancheng plant in Jiangsu province. The use of Kia's Chinese plant to produce the masks would not only ease the shortage of medical resources in South Korea, but also provide better protection for its employees, as production at Kia's plants in the U.S. state of Georgia, Slovakia and India has been shut down due to the spread of the epidemic around the world.
U.S. car companies to extend the resumption of work
As of 17:00 EST on the 26th, the U.S. new crown confirmed cases of 82,404 cases, deaths 1178 cases. In the past about 24 hours, more than 17,000 new cases in the U.S., an increase of more than 250 deaths, according to statistics, the U.S. is now the world's largest number of cases of new coronavirus infection in the country, more than China and Italy.
In the face of the growing epidemic in the United States, car companies have had to extend the resumption of work. Detroit's Big Three automakers GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler (fca) plan to extend the current shutdown of their North American plants until April.
This comes after Ford, along with GM and Fiat Chrysler, closed plants in the U.S., Canada and Mexico from March 18 until March 30 under pressure from the United Auto Workers (uaw).
Ford said in a statement Tuesday that North American manufacturing plants will remain closed after March 30, while not providing a timetable for the plants to reopen, though it said the situation would be reviewed weekly on a case-by-case basis.
Ford doesn't plan to resume production until at least April 6, according to two people familiar with the matter, but they also warned that production plans could be further delayed.
And GM and Fiat Chrysler don't plan to resume production on March 30, according to three other people familiar with the matter. It's not clear when those plants will be able to resume production or whether some will be able to do so before others.
In addition, as the outbreak festers further in the U.S., U.S. car sales have made a near-decline, with some analysts saying that sales of cars in U.S. states that have taken embargoes as a result of the outbreak are set to fall by 80 percent or more.
Nissan, Renault, Kia stop production
According to foreign media reports, Renault announced that it will begin on March 25, suspended its production work in seven plants in South America. Specifically, Renault's plants in Cordoba, Argentina; Curitiba, Brazil; Envigado, Colombia; and Los Andes, Chile, will suspend production, and about 9,000 employees will be affected by this shutdown.
In addition, the company will also suspend production at its Comercanica plant in Los Andes, Chile, starting March 26th. This shutdown will affect nearly 9,000 employees from four countries and seven plants. The Group plans to restart production activities as soon as conditions permit and to take appropriate measures to respond effectively to commercial demand."
In addition to Renault, FCA, Toyota, General Motors, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen and Volvo have previously announced that they will stop production in Brazil, and IHS?Markit analyst Stephanie?Brinley had predicted that vehicle production in South America would be down by about 98,000 units in March and April this year.
On the other hand, Nissan decided to temporarily close its plants in Egypt and South Africa. Before that, Nissan's factories in Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries and regions have been forced to shut down due to the new coronavirus outbreak sweeping the world. Nissan North America announced that production is tentatively scheduled to resume on April 7 at plants within the United States.
In addition, Kia Motors, a subsidiary of Hyundai Motor, announced that its U.S. plant will be shut down again starting next week due to the spread of the epidemic. The plant will close on March 30 and is expected to restart production on April 13th. The shutdown includes a previously planned plant closure from April 6 to 10 for the replacement of new model equipment, the company said.
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