Xiaomi held an online conference today headed by the group’s president Wang Xiang. He updated the current status of the company amid the coronavirus outbreak and explained how the firm has overcome it so far.
Wang Xiang said that all the 2000 employees of Wuhan province, the epicenter of the COVID-19 epidemic were on leave since January 20. But now, gradually, all of them have resumed their jobs with 0% infection from the virus. Additionally, the company has issued each on-site office staff with 2 masks, a bottle of alcohol disinfection spray, and another bottle of anti-bacterial hand sanitizer to self-protect themselves from possible infection.
Wang also said that Xiaomi’s supply chain had resumed its work at above 80% of its total capacity as of March 19, which is today. Even the company has now re-opened more than 1,800 official retail stores across China. Also, the production line of Redmi, a year old sub-brand of Xiaomi is too now operating at full capacity. Further, Wang also announced that his company is now working on to donate medical supplies to more foreign countries.
Last week, Xiaomi India COO MuraliKrishnan C also assured the coronavirus pandemic will not affect the company’s business in the country but did confirm the TV supplies to be affected. Nevertheless, the smartphone maker just launched its Redmi Note 9 series and is all set to bring the Mi 10 series to India on March 31st as Chinese factories have resumed their production.
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