Apple Supplier Foxconn Halts Operations at Its Shenzhen Sites Due to COVID-19 Lockdown

People wear masks to protect themselves from COVID-19, while listening to the annual general meeting at the lobby of Foxconn's office in Taipei, Taiwan on June 23, 2020. Ann Wang/Reuters

Foxconn has halted operations in the Chinese business center of Shenzhen after authorities announced a partial lockdown because of a rise in COVID-19 cases across the country, fueled by the highly transmissible Omicron virus variant.

In a March 13 statement, a spokesperson for the Taiwan-based Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., said it was suspending production at two campuses in Shenzhen “in compliance with the local government’s new Covid-19 policy.”