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Shanghai lockdown: Apple has shut down its operations in China.

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Apple has shut down its operations in China.

Because of the lockdown in Shanghai, another company has stopped making Apple’s iPhones.

Pegatron, a company that makes technology, says that two of its factories in China have been put on hold for a short time.

The announcement came simultaneously as authorities in Shanghai eased some of the city’s coronavirus rules on Tuesday.

In this case, some of the city’s 25 million people can leave their homes for the first time in weeks.

There were a lot of infections in the city’s main manufacturing and financial centre, so the city was shut down in late March.

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Pegatron said that its factories in Shanghai and Kunshan had been closed on the stock exchange because the government wanted them to be safe from Covid-19.

As soon as possible, the company said it would work with authorities to get the business back up and running.

According to the Japanese newspaper Nikkei, two major Apple MacBook and iPad makers in China, Quanta and Compal Electronics, have also stopped working in those cities.

This is what Pegatron said when the BBC asked them for comment. They didn’t say anything else. Apple, Quanta, and Compal didn’t answer questions right away.

Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives said that he thought the shutdowns would affect production, but he didn’t say how.

He said that the production of 3 million iPhones had been slowed down so far this month, with more to come if this goes on.

Mr Ives also told the BBC that the production of 2 million iPads and 1 million MacBooks might be slowed down.

People who work for Apple and other parts of the iPhone ecosystem say the closure of Pegatron puts more fuel on the fire. This makes iPhone supply chain problems even worse.

Foxconn, a Taiwanese company that also makes iPhones for Apple, stopped making iPhones at its factory in Shenzhen last month.

It moved production to other factories, but it kept going at its factory in Shenzhen with employees working in a closed-loop system. This meant that workers lived and worked at the plant.

Since the pandemic started in 2019, China has shut down a lot of big cities, like Xi’an and Wuhan, which have affected a lot of people.

As of now, the city of Shanghai is the largest to be put on lockdown. Shanghai is a major city for the financial and manufacturing industries and the world’s largest port.