HAWTHORNE, Calif. (KNX) — More than 130 staffers at SpaceX’s headquarters at 1 Rocket Road in Hawthorne are reportedly infected with COVID-19, according to data shared by Los Angeles Health officials.
The aerospace manufacturer, number 29 on the list of “active outbreaks at non-residential settings with three or more laboratory-confirmed,” has a total of 132 COVID-positive employees — the largest number of infected people at the 37 workplaces on the list.
The data was updated this week on the L.A. Department of Public Health's COVID-19 “locations and demographics” page.
This is not the first time COVID–19 cases have been reported at Spacex’s corporate headquarters in Hawthorne, according to the Los Angeles Times.
In March 2020, shortly after Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted a pandemic-related lockdown, “an employee who traveled abroad and an onsite healthcare provider tested positive for the virus,” resulting in at least 12 people being sent home and quarantined for two weeks, according to the newspaper.
The second-largest outbreak at a FedEx on W Imperial Highway near the Los Angeles International Airport, with 85 employees who have tested positive. Other workplaces have between three and 33 COVID positive employees, according to the data.
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