Foxconn's iPhone factory in China — the world's largest — hit by Covid outbreak - CNBC

Foxconn said Tuesday that its mill successful Zhengzhou, China — the world's largest assembly works for Apple's iPhones — was deed with a tiny Covid outbreak.

A spokesperson for the Taiwanese firm, officially known arsenic Hon Hai Technology Group, told CNBC that cognition and accumulation astatine its Zhengzhou installation is "relatively unchangeable with wellness and information measures for employees being maintained."

"For the tiny fig of employees affected by the pandemic, Foxconn, successful compliance with section epidemic prevention policies, is providing the indispensable guarantees for livelihoods, including worldly supplies, intelligence comfortableness and responsive feedback," the spokesperson added.

Foxconn said that the interaction connected the radical is "controllable" and the operating outlook for this 4th remains unchanged.

Apple was not instantly disposable for remark erstwhile contacted by CNBC.

Zhengzhou, successful cardinal China's Henan province, has been battling a caller question of Covid this month. The metropolis has locked down immoderate districts arsenic China pushes up with its zero-Covid policy, utilizing investigating and lockdowns to effort and tackle the virus.

Earlier this month, Foxconn implemented microorganism prevention measures specified arsenic requiring employees to person a Covid trial wrong 24 hours of them entering the Zhengzhou premises and urged them to get vaccinated.

Foxconn's presumption highlights the balancing enactment required by manufacturing facilities to conscionable lawsuit request nether Beijing's strict Covid policy.

Apple inactive relies heavy connected China for the bulk of its iPhone production, but the Cupertino elephantine has looked to diversify its proviso chain.

Last month, Apple said that it has begun assembling its flagship iPhone 14 successful India. It is the archetypal clip Apple is producing its latest exemplary successful India, adjacent to the device's launch, which happened successful September.