With China experiencing a fresh outbreak of COVID, Apple's top contract manufacturer Foxconn has been forced to shut down for a week halting the assembly lines.
devices since Foxconn is responsible for the production of many of the tech giant's products including certain iPhone models. The company says that it will now depend on backup plans to prevent any disruptions.Reuters
, the 17.5 million people living in Shenzhen have been placed on lockdown for one week and with bus and subway systems closed, only essential businesses in the city are allowed to remain open. While many of our readers might consider the production of Apple devices to be essential, the government in China does not agree and Foxconn's huge factory is closed temporarily.Apple isn't the only tech firm to be impacted by the lockdown in Shenzhen.
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