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World’s Largest iPhone Factory Hit by Covid in China – SCMP

Reports of Foxconn’s Zhengzhou campus operating in a “production bubble” went viral on Chinese social media platforms


People wear masks to protect themselves from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while listening to the annual general meeting at the lobby of Foxconn's office in Taipei
Foxconn told SCMP that the outbreak has affected a “small number of employees” and that operations at the campus are “relatively stable”. Photo: Reuters

 

The largest iPhone factory in the world, owned by the Foxconn Technology Group in the central Chinese city Zhengzhou, has been hit by a Covid-19 outbreak, the South China Morning Post reported.

Foxconn told SCMP that the outbreak had affected a “small number of employees” and that operations at the campus are “relatively stable”. Foxconn’s statement came after reports of the Zhengzhou campus operating in a “production bubble” went viral on Chinese social media platforms.

Read the full report: SCMP.

 

 

 

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Vishakha Saxena

Vishakha Saxena is the Multimedia and Social Media Editor at Asia Financial. She has been working as a digital journalist since 2013, and is an experienced writer and multimedia producer. As an eager stock market trader and investor, she is keenly interested in economy, emerging markets and the intersections of finance and society. You can tweet to her @saxenavishakha

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