The Covid-19 epidemics are forcing high-tech companies and Vietnamese export factories to suspend operations.
Samsung Electronics has been ordered to suspend operations and set up on-site housing for workers amid the virus outbreak to resume work.
Pouyuen Vietnam is Ho Chi Minh City’s largest employer. The business will be closed for 10 days after the business said it could not meet the district’s requirements for all employees to stay at the plant and undergo the novel coronavirus tests every three days at the instead of going back and forth between their residences and the factory.
Many factories in Saigon’s high-tech park, including the Samsung Electronics CE complex, have closed after more than 750 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed, vnexpress reported.
Saigon Hi-Tech Park is home to several high-tech companies and is located 15 km from downtown Ho Chi Minh City. With 85 companies and more than 45,000 workers, the park produced nearly $ 21 billion in products.
High-tech companies operate in this park, including the Japanese company Nidec (with several factories under the flagship products Nidec, Nidec Copal and Nidec Sankyo, Intel (chip assembly and testing plant) and Samsung Electronics
Saigon Hi-tech Park has recorded more than 750 cases of Covid-19 so far. Nearly 600 of them have been detected at the factory of stepper motor manufacturer Nidec Sankyo, which has been closed since July 3.
Three Samsung units have stopped working after 46 cases were confirmed here. The company has 7,000 employees in 16 units.
Samsung Electronics has been ordered to suspend operations and set up on-site housing for workers amid the virus outbreak to resume work.
Intel Corp was allowed to continue operating after setting up sleepover arrangements and cutting some of its operations.
Covid-19 outbreak at Ho Chi Minh’s largest employer
Taiwanese shoe maker Pouyuen Vietnam, which has more than 56,000 employees, has been ordered to suspend operations by authorities in Ho Chi Min City following an outbreak of Covid-19 cases.
Pouyuen Vietnam is Ho Chi Minh City’s largest employer. According to a report from the city’s health authorities, Pouyuen had detected 35 cases of Covid-19 as of July 4.
The business will be closed for 10 days after the company said it could not meet the district’s requirements for all employees to stay at the plant and undergo the novel coronavirus tests every three days at the instead of going back and forth between their residences and the factory.
Ho Chi Minh City has 320,000 workers in export processing zones and a high-tech park and nearly 1.3 million in 17 industrial zones.
Vietnam’s health ministry announced on Wednesday morning 905 local cases of Covid-19 in 15 localities, bringing the number of infections in the current wave to 31,839.
