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The US group explained on Sunday that the Foxconn factory located in the Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone, capital of central China’s Henan province, is paralyzed because of restrictions imposed last Wednesday.
Chinese authorities closed off access to the zone, prohibiting any entry or exit, for a period of one week, except to deliver food and health equipment, after Foxconn employees escaped the premises.
“Customers will have to wait longer to receive their new products,” Apple concluded. “As we have done since the beginning of the pandemic, we are prioritizing the health and safety of workers in our supply chain,” the company added.
The Taiwanese group Foxconn, Apple’s main supplier, has faced an increase in Covid-19 cases since October in the Zhengzhou industrial complex, about 600 kilometers from Beijing, which employs nearly 300,000 people.
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