The coronavirus continues to speak and continues to affect global production and, therefore, the financial results of companies focusing on their production in China, such as Apple. However, now that is coronavirus has begun to break boundaries, the problem for companies can be much worse.
LG Innotek, the LG division responsible for the manufacture of iPhone cameras, just announced that temporarily shut down the factory that manufactures iPhone cameras, when a coronavirus infection was discovered within its template. This factory is not found in China, but in South Korea.
As we can read at Reurters, the factory closed its facilities last weekend and will remain closed throughout the week. while the separation process is performed, a process that will end next week. In addition, all staff will need to be tested to see if they have been exposed to the coronavirus by an infected worker.
The first signs of coronavirus take 14 days to appear, so it's very possible, if LG wants a cure for life, the factory stays closed for the next 14 days to protect many potential employees, infection from other colleagues.
The process of putting together various pieces of iPhone, starting in mid-summer, is ready for mid-September, the official launch month. Apple's problem is that these months, when the operating system is developed by the developer, a process that they were forced to delay and that could affect the launch of the iPhone 12, or its early availability at launch.