Ford Motor Co. is quickly halting manufacturing at its Chicago Meeting Plant due to a provider half scarcity, the corporate mentioned Tuesday.

The plant, which builds the Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator crossovers, is scheduled to restart output with Wednesday's night shift, in accordance with a Fb put up by the native UAW chairman. Manufacturing on the plant was suspended Tuesday night.

A close-by Lear plant in Hammond, Ind., which provides Chicago Meeting with seats, closed earlier Tuesday when one employee examined optimistic for the novel coronavirus and one other was presumed to have it. A Lear spokesman mentioned the staff, one wage and one hourly, labored on the identical shift and had been most just lately within the facility final week. They haven't returned to work since visiting their docs.  

“We proceed to offer real-time well being and security steering and take complete preventative steps inside our operations,” a Lear spokesman mentioned. “We're working carefully with native public...