Chaos at Apple supplier Quanta shows strains of Shanghai COVID lockdown


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Chaos at Apple supplier Quanta shows strains of Shanghai COVID lockdown 9 May, 2022, 7:09 am SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Quanta Shanghai Manufacturing City would seem like an ideal site to implement China’s “closed-loop” management system to prevent the spread of COVID that requires staff to live and work on-site in a secure bubble. Sprawled over land the size of 20 football fields, the campus houses factories, living quarters for 40,000 workers, some living 12 per room, and even a supermarket. But as COVID-19 breeched Quanta’s defences, the system broke down into chaos on Thursday. Videos posted online showed more than...