Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.Apple supplier Foxconn shut operations at two of its largest manufacturing sites in Shenzhen on Monday, after authorities in China’s southern tech hub ordered the city of 17.5 million into lockdown to combat an outbreak of COVID-19. Foxconn, Apple’s top iPhone manufacturer, said it is waiting on the advice of the local government to determine when the factories will reopen.Shenzhen’s government ordered the citywide lockdown on Sunday after reporting 66 new COVID cases that day, bringing the southern Chinese city’s total to over 400 since late February. The lockdown is scheduled to last a week, during which time health authorities say they will test every resident three times.Foxconn told Fortune it has “adjusted [our] production line to minimize the potential impact” of the lockdown in Shenzhen, tapping into the company’s “diversified production sites in China.”Besides rerouting Apple’s supply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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