{"id":21874,"date":"2020-02-09T14:30:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T13:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=21874"},"modified":"2020-02-10T12:14:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T11:14:12","slug":"foxconn-stops-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=21874","title":{"rendered":"Foxconn stops production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-Post-Thumb wp-image-21876\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/foxconn_Icon-64x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/foxconn_Icon-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/foxconn_Icon-480x480.png 480w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/foxconn_Icon-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/foxconn_Icon.png 512w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/foxconn_Icon-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/foxconn_Icon-500x500.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>Definitely no good time for Foxconn at the<br \/>\nmoment. The coronavirus seems to have im-<br \/>\npacted all major companies in China and<br \/>\nforces them to a standstill due to infection risk.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#8217;s not common that big companies shut down production for such a long time but due to the actual occurrences of the coronavirus it seems that it might be a wiser idea to shut down production than to allow the coronavirus to spread and infect much more people.<\/p>\n<p>By now (Feb 9<sup>th<\/sup>, 2020), there are 40.000 infections reported of which 900 ended with death. (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nCov Counter<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>It is said that the shutdown might be till February 15th, 2020 or when local authorities declare that the work can be resumed without any further risk of large-area infections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/foxconn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21875\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/foxconn-640x92.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/foxconn-640x92.png 640w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/foxconn-768x110.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/foxconn-500x72.png 500w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/foxconn.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Especially in large production sites with hospitality for the workers an outbreak can be fatal. As Foxconn hosts about 800.000 workers, there might be a big risk to have the virus spread there.<\/p>\n<p>Other companies have also announced to close down their facilities until the main wave of infections has stopped. Most companies also agreed to have their stores\/shops\/facilities closed until February 15<sup>th<\/sup>, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definitely no good time for Foxconn at the moment. The coronavirus seems to have im- pacted all major companies in China and forces them to a standstill due to infection risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,342],"tags":[4388,89,3787,2396,1333,3872],"class_list":["post-21874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-2","category-economyfinance","tag-coronavirus","tag-danger","tag-foxconn","tag-infection","tag-production","tag-spread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}