Foxconn, the maker of Apple’s iPhone, is recalling its factory workers in phases to its assembly lines as China struggles to revive the world’s second-largest economy from the paralysis wrought by the spread of the coronavirus.
But for Foxconn, China’s largest private sector employer with more than 1m employees, a return to full production “will take weeks”, said one person at the company with knowledge of the matter.
Analysts warned that China’s prolonged shutdown, which started three weeks ago with the quarantine of Wuhan — the city at the centre of the outbreak — could delay the launch of Apple’s next iPhone, planned for March.
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