Apple’s Quarantined Factory Returns to Production

Due to a new COVID-19 outbreak, Foxconn’s Shenzhen factory has entered a strict government-imposed quarantine process; iPhone production in this period break was reported to be required. The fact that this event coincided with Apple’s announcement of the new iPhone SE 3 and the announcement that more color options would be produced for the iPhone 13 series brought to mind questions such as whether there would be a significant disruption in production and how the company would be financially affected by this situation.

According to new information from Apple, the company ‘basically’ after a break of about 2 weeks. to normal operations reported back. The explanations from the analysts were that this glitch did not affect Apple much.

Some of the staff will continue to work in ‘partial quarantine’

Nikkei Asia, aforementioned Foxconn factory, some personnel what we can call partial quarantine; He stated that he resumed production and operations last Wednesday, in order to live together and continue to work in one area. In a statement made by the company, “basically continuing normal working order and production operations” expressed. However, the company is “under the leadership of adherence to epidemic prevention policies and strict implementation of epidemic prevention and control” He added that it did.

On the other hand, the statement said that although iPhone production should be stopped for a while, the portion of Foxconn’s iPhone production in Shenzhen is quite small; while the majority ZhengzhouIt was stated that in .

In a statement made by an analyst, this 12-day quarantine at the Foxconn factory is only about approx. 10 per centcould affect him. Of course, this still does not change the fact that the return of production to normal is good news for Apple.