Apple supplier Foxconn suspends iPhone production in Shenzhen – as 17 million people in the Chinee tech hub city are locked down due to COVID outbreak

3:09:41 PM PDT by [algore](/~algore/) Chinese tech manufacturer Foxconn has halted production of Apple products at its factory in Shenzhen, after 17 million people were put in a new covid lockdown. Restrictions on movement were spread across Shanghai and other major cities to combat an outbreak challenging the nation’s zero-tolerance Covid strategy. Shenzhen, a major technology hub, imposed its measures on Sunday, to counter an Omicron outbreak in factories and neighbourhoods linked to nearby Hong Kong, which is recording scores of daily deaths due to the virus running rampant. Foxconn, based in the tech hub, suspended all operations as the…