Samsung reportedly suspends Galaxy S20 manufacturing facility once more over coronavirus case – CNET

The South Korean manufacturing facility the place Samsung makes Galaxy S20 telephones suspended operations over a coronavirus case.

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Samsung suspended manufacturing at its Galaxy S20 manufacturing facility in Gumi, South Korea, for a second time on Friday after considered one of its staff examined constructive for coronavirus, Reuters reported. Manufacturing is anticipated to renew on Saturday. 

It will transfer some cellphone manufacturing to Vietnam, based on South Korean information company Yonhap, and the ground of the Gumi manufacturing facility the place the sick worker labored will keep closed till Sunday.

Final month, the Samsung manufacturing facility — the place its Z Flip foldable telephones are made — was shuttered over a weekend after an worker from its wi-fi division got here down with the sickness. Six individuals who work on the manufacturing facility advanced in Gumi have contracted the illness, Reuters famous.

The brand new pressure of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, causes a pneumonia-like sickness and was found in Wuhan, China, in December. It has now contaminated greater than 98,000 folks and brought on practically three,400 deaths globally. As of early Friday, there have been nearly 6,600 confirmed circumstances and 40 deaths in South Korea.

Samsung did not instantly reply to a request for remark.

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