Coronavirus Outbreak: Tata Motors May Close Its Pune Site

Tata Motors announces that it will scale down activities at its Pune site due to ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. 52 cases have been reported until now in Maharashtra.

In light of these developments and in line with broad global consensus, as a community, we need to act early and adopt social distancing to help break the contagion and get ahead of the virus. We have taken various measures at a group level as well as at Tata Motors, said the company in a statement.

We have been monitoring the situation closely and all data seem to point out that Maharashtra has been the most impacted. In the interest of the safety of our employees in the state, we have decided to rapidly scale down activities at the Pune site to get to skeletal operations by end of Monday, 23rd March 2020 and be ready for plant closure by end Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 if the situation warrants., it added.