China's Shenzhen orders big firms including Foxconn into closed loop - Bloomberg News

[July 25, 2022]  SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - The Shenzhen government asked 100 major companies, including iPhone maker Foxconn and oil producer CNOOC Ltd, to implement a "closed loop" system for a week as the southern city battles a COVID-19 outbreak, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.

Foxconn said that operations at its Shenzhen facilities were "normal" and that it would follow government guidelines to ensure safe production.

The city government asked companies including BYD Co, Huawei Technologies Co, and ZTE Corp, to restrict operations only to employees living within a closed loop, with little to no contact with people beyond their plants or offices, the report said, citing a Shenzhen government notice.

The Shenzhen government, Huawei and CNOOC did not immediately respond to request for comment.

BYD, ZTE and Shenzhen-based dronemaker DJI Technology Co declined to comment.

People wear masks to protect themselves from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while listening to the annual general meeting at the lobby of Foxconn's office in Taipei, Taiwan, June 23, 2020. REUTERS/Ann Wang/File Photo

During an outbreak in March, Shenzhen adopted one week of so-called "slow living", during which residents underwent multiple rounds of testing and largely stayed at home, with one member of each household allowed out every few days to buy necessities.

(Reporting by Shubhendu Deshmukh in Bengaluru and David Kirton in Shenzhen; Editing by Toby Chopra and Bernadette Baum)

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