New Delhi: Apple Park employees were evacuated after staff discovered an envelope containing a white powder substance and some of the employees rushed out in anticipating the substance is harmful. A small portion of the Apple campus was evacuated before given an all-clear signal, according to a report by NBC Bay Area. The white powder substance was later deemed as non-hazardous.
The NBC Bay Area report cited Santa Clara County Fire Department Captain Justin Stockman as saying that the envelope contained a "white powder substance". Emergency personnel since have determined that the situation is under control, and employees apparently have been allowed to go back inside, according to the report. However, there is no clarity on what the white powder substance may have been.
Meanwhile, Apple's contract manufacturer Foxconn has stopped operations and manufacturing in China's Shenzhen city after authorities clamped lockdown measures in the wake of the rising COVID-19 cases. The Taiwanese contract manufacturer of iPhones has halted operations in two of its manufacturing units, the media has reported.
Foxconn, however, has not mentioned the duration of the closure of both the manufacturing sites. The introduction of this indefinite lockdown is likely to postpone Mac Studio desktop shipments. Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., has its China headquarters in Shenzhen and also has a key manufacturing site in Guanlan and both the sites produce iPhones. Foxconn has told news agency Reuters it has “adjusted the production line” to factories elsewhere in China to minimise the impact on operations.