BERLIN — Audi CEO Markus Duesmann has gone proper right into a rehabilitation clinic to recuperate from a coronavirus an an infection he contracted throughout the spring.

An Audi spokesperson said Duesmann’s admittance to the rehabilitation clinic was purely a precautionary measure on the advice of his docs.

Duesmann is already scheduled to return to work on the end of the month, the spokesman said in an e-mail to Automotive Data Europe.

Duesmann’s rehabilitation preserve began last Monday. He took half throughout the on-line presentation of Audi mum or dad Volkswagen Group’s new Method 2030 on Tuesday after recording his look last Friday. Duesmann might be in charge of VW Group’s R&D actions.

“Since we’re all properly educated in distant working, there’s no state of affairs,” Audi’s spokesperson said.

Duesmann has said he does not actually really feel any long-term COVID-19 indicators.

Duesmann touted the benefits of distant working in an interview with Automotive Data Europe earlier this month, suggesting that as a lot as 30 % white-collar workers might switch to eternal work from home.

Duesmann had fallen sick with COVID-19 in April, Automotive Data’ sister publication Automobilwoche reported. He then spent two weeks in quarantine at home, Audi sources suggested Automobilwoche.

Common, the sickness had taken a mild course in him, and Duesmann continued to work from home by telephone and video title, Automobilwoche said. After the tip of the quarantine, he resumed work on web site.

In a message to his workers this week, Duesmann wrote that based totally on his experience he felt anyone might catch the sickness “no matter warning and loads of safety precautions.”

Due to this, he said, he had now decided to take part in a rehabilitation program for two to three weeks, merely to be on the safe facet, so that he might then come once more to work and “go full throttle as soon as extra.”