IPhone Supply Chain Takes Hit From Xi’s Covid-Zero Enforcers
- Zhengzhou is where most iPhone 14 Pro units are assembled
- Troubled iPhone City campus now under sudden Covid-19 lockdown
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With little warning, China locked down the world’s largest iPhone factory on Wednesday, declaring the zone around the Zhengzhou Foxconn Technology Group complex off-limits to combat a local Covid-19 outbreak. It’s the last thing Apple Inc. needed.
The abrupt move is expected to further disrupt a factory already grappling with an outcry over an on-site coronavirus outbreak, worker exodus and enforced quarantine. Local authorities said Wednesday that they’ll sterilize Foxconn’s campus and the surrounding areas in the next three days and send N95 masks to workers, another sign of the government’s tightening grip.