China Locks Down Area Around Foxconn’s ‘iPhone City’ Plant - BQ Prime

(Bloomberg) -- China has ordered a seven-day lockdown of the country astir Foxconn Technology Group’s main works successful Zhengzhou, a determination that volition severely curtail shipments successful and retired of the world’s largest iPhone factory.

The lockdown volition past until Nov. 9, the section authorities said successful a connection posted to its WeChat account. 

The abrupt enactment reflects Beijing’s Covid Zero attack to stamping retired outbreaks, and is apt to further disrupt Foxconn’s main operations base. The Taiwanese company, whose main listed limb is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., is grappling with a Covid flare-up that forced immoderate of its 200,000 unit into quarantine and pushed others to fly the installation -- immoderate connected foot. 

The institution has scrambled to mitigate the imaginable disruption, raising wages and arranging for backup from its different Chinese plants should assembly lines stall successful Zhengzhou. In caller days, it’s fought besides to quell speculation connected societal media that immoderate of the infected unit had died.

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