Zhengzhou, home to Apple Inc.’s largest iPhone factory, will be largely locked down for five days after officials in the Chinese city said the Covid-19 pandemic had entered a critical phase.
So-called mobility controls -- an apparent euphemism for a lockdown -- will be imposed in main urban areas from Nov. 25 through Nov. 29 because of rising Covid cases, Zhengzhou’s pandemic task force said in a statement late Wednesday. The city reported 996 infections on Wednesday, up from 813 a day earlier.
The new restrictions were announced after hundreds of workers at Apple’s main iPhone-making plant in Zhengzhou streamed