BEIJING, April 18 (Reuters) – Chinese authorities in the southern tech hub of Shenzhen will send 8,000 people to Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen to help the firm resume production amid a strict COVID lockdown, a government official said on Monday..
Shenzhen, home to millions of migrant workers and factories of major global companies including Apple Inc AAPL.O and Foxconn, has been under a strict lockdown since March 14 due to a surge in COVID-19 cases..
Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 2317.TW, is Apple’s biggest iPhone assembler and has factories across China, including Shenzhen..
Wang Weizhong, a Shenzhen government official, told a news conference the 8,000 staff would be sent to Foxconn from state-owned companies and that all of them had tested negative for COVID-19..
The move comes after Foxconn last week announced a .
