Chinese Apple Store closed due to new coronavirus reopened



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new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), which was finally recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), has become a source of infection despite its spread in European countries such as Italy and Spain. There is also data that the epidemic is ending in China. Meanwhile, Apple has decided to resume business at the directly managed store, which was temporarily closed.

Coronavirus: Apple China stores all open apart from four
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/coronavirus-apple-china-stores-all-open-apart-from-four.html

Apple says all of its retail stores in China will have reopened as of Friday-9to5Mac
https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/12/apple-stores-china-reopen/

Following the spread of the new coronavirus, Apple announced on February 1, 2020, that it will temporarily close all retail stores and offices in China. Initially, it was scheduled to close for only one week, but some stores were closed until Thursday, March 12, 2020, but finally reopened on Friday, March 13 You.



There are 42 Apple Stores in China, 29 of which were reopened by February 24. And nine more stores have resumed operations since the 13th, and a total of 38 stores have resumed operations, but the operating hours themselves have been reduced. The three stores located in Tianjin, a major city in northwest China, and one store in Suzhou, western Shanghai, remain closed. News media CNBC asked Apple for comments on why only four stores will be closed, but no response was obtained.

As China is an important market for Apple, in line with the spread of the new coronavirus, Apple has projected that sales will be below initial expectations in the next quarter.

Apple officially announces that `` sales will decrease due to the effect of coronavirus ''-gigazine



China is not only an important market for Apple, but also an important base for manufacturing handsets such as the iPhone. However, with the spread of the new coronavirus, Foxconn's factory, which undertakes the manufacture of the iPhone, is temporarily closed , and it is clear that the iPhone production line has been greatly affected. However, Foxconn is towards the investors as 'already recovered 50 percent of the production line, it is possible to return to a full state by the end of March,' said we.


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