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iPhone city maintains plant curbs as China tweaks Covid-19 approach

Foxconn's task of catching up on lost iPhone production time has been complicated by the lockdown, which triggered violent protests last week

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Debby Wu | Bloomberg
Apple Inc.’s most important iPhone assembly plant remains in a closed-loop operation that curtails workers’ movement on campus, potentially complicating the effort to resume full production.

Foxconn Technology Group is sticking with measures adopted weeks ago limiting staff movements in order to handle a Covid outbreak, according to a person familiar with operations, who asked not to be named as the information is not public. The closed-loop approach restricts workers to their dorms or the factory floor, minimizing the number of other people they come into contact with in hopes of containing the spread of the virus.

The Taiwanese company, also known