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

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.

Foxconn on Tuesday confirmed its operations in the province had been suspended.

“Some subsidiaries of the group are cooperating with the local government’s overall anti-epidemic policy in the Bac Giang area of ​​Vietnam,” Foxconn told Reuters in an emailed statement.