LONDON — Stellantis said on Monday it’ll rapidly halt a shift at its Vauxhall van manufacturing facility in Luton, England, because of large amount employees isolating to halt the unfold of COVID-19.

“The safety of our workers is of one of the best priority at Stellantis,” the company said in an announcement.

“With a view to defend our teams, our plant in Luton will switch from three shifts to 2 shifts in the course of this week,” Stellantis said.

The manufacturing facility builds Opel/Vauxhall Vivaro, Peugeot Skilled and Citroen Dispatch large vans.

Nissan’s plant in Sunderland, the most important inside the UK, has moreover misplaced manufacturing due to workers being required to self-isolate.

The automaker was pressured to ship whole teams residence and cancel various shifts, costing the manufacturing facility tons of of autos in misplaced work, Bloomberg reported earlier this month.

England’s railways, supermarkets and pubs warned the federal authorities on Monday {{that a}} COVID tracing app, which has knowledgeable tons of of tons of of employees to isolate, was wrecking the nation’s monetary restoration and pushing present chains to the brink of collapse.