Toyota suspends operations at one Japan plant

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Toyota suspends operations at one Japan plant

Toyota Motor Corp suspended operations on Tuesday at one production line at its factory in central Japan because of an outbreak of COVID 19, after it suspended operations there on Monday night.

A total of 16 workers at the Tsutsumi plant in Aichi Prefecture have been infected with COVID, making it hard for the company to secure enough workers for operations, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.

A spokesman told Reuters that about 660 vehicles would be affected by the suspension.

Toyota had suspended night shift operations at a different factory for two days for the same reason in late July.

The world's largest automaker by sales stuck to its 9.7 million global production target for the year ending March 2023, saying output and sales were on path to recovery from this month onwards.