Unfortunately, the expansion of Coronavirus has already surpassed the SARS epidemic occurred in 2003, and the situation is already in a phase of high gravity. SARS infected more than 8,000 people and produced 774 deaths, but Coronavirus already carries more than 40,500 confirmed infections and 910 deaths. Of course, the SARS death rate was 9.6% while that of Coronavirus is 2.2%, for now.
At this point the expansion was expected to be already quite controlled, and the hardware manufacturers hoped to reopen their factories and offices by now. However, Not only have they not reopened their doors but they have been closing more, and also with no announced reopening date: will be closed indefinitely, the time it takes.
With the aim of curbing the spread of the disease, the Chinese New Year holidays have been extended in many of the main regions of China, including in the vital Shandong Province and in the cities of Suzhou and Shanghai. Further, the vast majority of the transport network in the country is suspended, which causes the country's logistics to be low.
Tech giants like Qualcomm, Manzana, Microsoft, Google, Samsung or Tesla They have closed their offices and manufacturing facilities in China. Although most of these closures were scheduled to end yesterday, they are still closed and have not specified a scheduled date for reopening.
It is expected that the closure of the facilities of Foxconn and Pegatron delay the production of Apple devices (iPhone and AirPods) for several months, and it is the Chinese authorities themselves that have prevented Foxconn from reopening its Shenzen manufacturing plant. In addition, Foxconn unilaterally decided to also keep its Zhengzhou factory closed until the Chinese government had more information about the Coronavirus epidemic.
Because of these closures, many technological products are suffering serious delays, or even lack of supply. For example, Facebook is not receiving orders for its latest VR glasses Oculus Quest VR, and have issued an official statement citing Coronavirus as the cause of this situation. Nintendo Nor is it freed, and remittances from its Switch console are also suffering delays and are currently out of stock.
Similarly, Huawei has postponed its developer conference that would take place next week, and LG and Sony have already announced that they will not attend the Mobile World Congress that will take place in Barcelona.
