Recently, China implemented a local lockdown in Zhengzhou city. This region is close to an Apple iPhone manufacturing site, which has raised concern for the company’s smartphones supply chain.
According to a Bloomberg report, certain areas in the Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone have been put under a quarantine zone. In other words, people living in the area are not allowed to move outside of their homes. Furthermore, this Airport Economy Zone is also where Foxconn’s largest iPhone assembly plant is located. For those unaware, the Taiwanese company is the Cupertino based giant’s largest iPhone supplier. So, the local lockdowns may very well impact the production of iPhones.
Notably, the lockdowns arrive after employees have begun going through mandatory COVID testing. Additionally, the country has been implementing lockdowns in an attempt to curb the spread of coronavirus outbreaks. While the iPhones haven’t been directly affected so far, there is already a shortage issue with MacBooks. Apple’s other suppliers like Pegatron and Quanta had also recently halted production on the eastern side of China due to these quarantines.
Just last month, even Foxconn had been forced to stop production for several days from its Shenzhen facility after a city wide lockdown was imposed. And now, it seems that a similar incident might occur again due to rising cases of COVID. Although, it remains to be seen if production halts in this region as well.
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