“The facility is operating lately at a particularly reduced capacity,” Apple said in a statement. “Customers will delight in longer wait times to get their new products. “
Reuters reported in October that Apple’s iPhone production could fall 30% at one of the world’s largest factories next month due to tightening Covid restrictions in China.
Its main factory in Zhengzhou, central China, which employs about 200,000 people, has been rocked by discontent with strict measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, with many fleeing.
Meanwhile, Taiwan’s Foxconn, Apple’s largest iPhone maker, said Monday it is running to resume full production at a giant factory in Zhengzhou, China, which was hit by Covid-19 restrictions, and revised down its outlook for the fourth quarter.
The impact on production comes amid a historically busy era for electronics makers ahead of the holiday season, which is also a prime time for consumer goods retailers like Apple.
Foxconn’s factory in Zhengzhou, which employs about 200,000 people, produces most of Apple’s new phones, the new iPhone 14.
The economic zone of Zhengzhou airport in central China said that from noon on Wednesday it will attack the 415km2 commercial park that houses China’s lowest “static management” closure point until noon on Nov. 9.
Foxconn said it would put new Covid-19 measures in place at the Zhengzhou plant, adding the transfer of all working workers to 3 dormitories.
An official said citizens in the area, about 26 kilometers southeast of Zhengzhou, were not allowed to leave their homes and had to undergo a PCR check once a day. Public transport facilities have been suspended and only approved cars are allowed on the roads. Other measures included the closure of offices, businesses and non-essential facilities.
He said any violation of the regulations would be “severely punished” by police and suggested that other people cooperate to “win victory in this district’s fight against the epidemic. “
In late October, staff were filmed fleeing the structure’s site after complaining about its remedy and disposition via social media. Nearby cities have drawn up plans to isolate themselves as migrant workers flee to their home cities to prevent the spread of the virus.
Zhengzhou, a city of about thirteen million people, suffers its worst outbreak in months while keeping its economy in balance.
China on Monday reported 5,496 new cases of covid-19 transmitted by Nov. 6, the highest since May 2, when the country’s advertising capital, Shanghai, came under a crushing lockdown amid its worst outbreak.
China is the latest major economy married to a strategy of extinguishing covid outbreaks as they emerge, enforcing instant lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines despite widespread disruption of foreign companies and supply chains.
Authorities threw bloodless water on the hypothesis that the policy might be relaxed, with National Health Commission spokesman Mi Feng saying Beijing “will unswervingly adhere to Array. . . the global dynamic zero-Covid policy”.
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