Vietnam shuts industrial parks housing Foxconn plants after COVID-19 outbreak

HANOI: Vietnam’s northern province of Bac Giang ordered on Tuesday four industrial parks, including three that house production facilities of Taiwan’s Foxconn, to temporarily shut down due to an outbreak of COVID-19.

The industrial parks will be closed until further notice, the province’s People’s Committee said in a statement.

“We hope the measure will be in place for just two weeks, but it depends on the situation of the outbreak, said Le Anh Duong, chairman of Bac Giang People’s Committee.