Foxconn COVID woes may hit up to 30% of iPhone Nov shipments from Zhengzhou plant – source - KDAL

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Apple supplier Foxconn’s COVID-19 woes astatine its immense iPhone manufacturing installation successful China’s Zhengzhou metropolis could slash the site’s November iPhone shipments by up to 30%,

a root with nonstop cognition of the substance said.

The source, who declined to beryllium identified arsenic the accusation was private, said Foxconn is present moving to boost iPhone accumulation astatine its mill successful the confederate metropolis of Shenzhen.

Foxconn referred Reuters to a connection it released precocious connected Sunday, successful which the institution said the concern was gradually coming nether power and Foxconn would coordinate back-up accumulation capableness with its different plants to trim immoderate imaginable impact.

Apple did not instantly respond to Reuters petition for comment.

(Reporting by Yimou Lee; Editing by Kim Coghill)