China Locks Down Area Around ‘iPhone City’ in Blow to Apple
- Local government ordered a 7-day lockdown starting noon
- A Covid outbreak is disrupting world’s largest iPhone plant
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China has ordered a seven-day lockdown of the area around Foxconn Technology Group’s main plant in Zhengzhou, a move that will severely curtail shipments in and out of the world’s largest iPhone factory.
The lockdown will last until Nov. 9, the local government said in a statement posted to its WeChat account. It ordered people and vehicles off the streets except for medical or other essential reasons, a prohibition that threatens to cut off the flow of additional workers and components needed to rev up production ahead of the holiday-season crush.