UPDATE 2-Nike supplier halts production at 3 Vietnam plants due to COVID-19


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07/15/2021 11:47 (Add details on Nike's supply chain, analyst comment) HANOI, July 15 (Reuters) - Changshin Vietnam, a South Korean shoemaker, became the second major Nike supplier to suspend production in Vietnam as it shut three of its factories near Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday due to a coronavirus outbreak. The factories in Dong Nai province, which employ nearly 42,000 workers, will remain shut until July 20, the Vietnamese government said in a statement, adding many of the 177 infection cases detected in the province were from the factories. Nike did not respond to Reuters request for comment outside...