covid-19 lockdowns

  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    Chinese city with biggest iPhone factory locked down

    Chinese city with biggest iPhone factory locked down Zhengzhou, home to Apple Inc.’s largest iPhone manufacturing site, will be largely locked down for five days as officials in the Chinese city resort to tighter curbs to quell a swelling Covid-19 outbreak. Mobility control s— a euphemism for...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Covid-19 lockdowns might have spared Eskom's grid from total collapse

    Covid-19 lockdowns might have spared Eskom's grid from total collapse A sharp drop in electricity demand as Covid-19 engulfed South Africa more than two years ago prevented unplanned breakdowns at the state-owned power company from snowballing to half of all capacity by this July, an event that...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Apple factory workers overwhelm guards as anger grows over China lockdowns

    Apple factory workers overwhelm guards as anger grows over China lockdowns Hundreds of workers at a technology factory in China clashed with authorities and flooded past isolation barriers after weeks under lockdown, a stunning breakdown in the Communist Party’s efforts to contain Covid-19...
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