Apple: COVID restrictions in China will slow iPhone deliveries - The Hill

Apple said COVID-19 restrictions astatine a large mill successful China volition dilatory deliveries of iPhones up of the holidays.

The tech institution said successful a connection connected Sunday the installation successful Zhengzhou is “currently operating astatine importantly reduced capacity” amid “strong demand” for iPhone products.

“We present expect little iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments than we antecedently anticipated and customers volition acquisition longer hold times to person their caller products,” the institution said. “We are moving intimately with our supplier to instrumentality to mean accumulation levels portion ensuring the wellness and information of each worker.”

The quality comes arsenic the engaged vacation buying play is kicking into cogwheel for the U.S., with Americans acceptable to walk wealth contempt precocious ostentation and concerns astir the economy, planetary consulting steadfast McKinsey and Company estimates.

Apple produces a bulk of its products successful China, which is inactive struggling to incorporate an outbreak of the caller coronavirus, posting much than 35,000 confirmed cases connected Friday, according to the World Health Organization.

While not arsenic precocious arsenic the fig of confirmed cases that spiked implicit the spring, China is reporting numbers overmuch higher than the archetypal 2 years of the pandemic, erstwhile it recorded a minimal magnitude of infections and deaths.

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has enacted a strict argumentation to rein successful infections done its zero-COVID policy, including mandatory quarantines for radical entering the state and strict investigating requirements for Chinese citizens.

While immoderate had hoped China would easiness up connected its zero-COVID argumentation during a enactment league past month, officials precocious signaled they would not beryllium easing up the restrictions.

To date, China has confirmed much than 9 cardinal cases of COVID-19 and much than 28,000 deaths linked to the disease.