2 minutesSamsung Electronics (
005930.KS)
said on Saturday that one coronavirus case had been confirmed at its
mobile device factory complex in the southeastern city of Gumi, causing a
shutdown of its entire facility there until Monday morning.
Samsung
Electronics, the world’s top smartphone maker, said the floor where
the infected employee worked would be shut down until the morning of
Feb. 25.
“The company has placed colleagues who came in contact
with the infected employee in self-quarantine and taken steps to have
them tested for possible infection,” Samsung said in a news release.
Samsung’s
factory in Gumi accounts for a small portion of its total smartphone
production, and it makes high-end phones, mostly for the domestic
market. Samsung produces most of its smartphones in Vietnam and India.
Gumi is close to the city of Daegu, home to a church at the center of South Korea’s largest coronavirus outbreak.
South
Korea said on Saturday that the number of people infected with the
coronavirus in the country had more than doubled to 433.
Samsung said production at its chip and display factories in other parts of South Korea would not be affected.
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