Foxconn on Wednesday banned all dining in at its Zhengzhou plant, which has about 300,000 workers, amid the region's latest wave of COVID-19 infections
According to Ming-Chi Kuo, the overall impact of the resulting factory closures on iPad production should be minimal if assembly lines restart by August 20.
Foxconn will operate within a “closed loop” restricted system for seven days as the southern manufacturing hub of Shenzhen battles its latest Covid outbreak.
Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics, is offering hefty bonuses to lure both new and former workers to iPhone assembly lines.
The Apple supplier reported T$29.45 billion ($985.48 million) in net profit for the quarter, up 5% but slightly short of analyst estimates of T$29.76 billion.