Foxconn’s iPhone Plant in Central China Keeps Running Despite Lockdown

(Bloomberg) — Foxconn Technology Group’s plant in central China, its biggest assembler of iPhones for Apple Inc., continues to operate amid a government Covid lockdown of the area, in line with authorities’ concession to allow key employees to carry on working.

Officials locked down the Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone that hosts Foxconn’s iPhone City campus on Thursday for an indefinite period, according to a government notice viewed by Bloomberg News. Residents are not allowed to leave their homes unless it is considered necessary during the lockdown, the notice said, but workers for key businesses can commute with permits.