Foxconn says production normal at iPhone plant in China despite COVID curbs - Reuters

Oct 21 (Reuters) - Taiwan electronics shaper Foxconn (2317.TW) said connected Friday accumulation astatine its largest iPhone mill remains normal, contempt tightening COVID-19 restrictions astatine the works successful the Chinese metropolis of Zhengzhou this week.

The Zhengzhou campus, which assembles Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone and has astir 300,000 workers, banned each eating successful and required workers to instrumentality their meals backmost to their dormitories opening connected Wednesday, a announcement posted connected the factory's authoritative WeChat relationship showed.

"Zhengzhou (plant) inactive maintains mean accumulation and has small interaction (from the situation)," Foxconn told Reuters.

The caller measures travel Zhengzhou's latest outbreak signaling a full of 196 cases since Oct. 8, and travel arsenic Foxconn's mill is ramping up accumulation of the latest iPhone 14 models.

Apple did not instantly respond to a Reuters petition for comment.

Reporting by Beijing newsroom and Juby Babu successful Bengaluru; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Kim Coghill

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