Two of Asia’s biggest tech manufacturing centres are scrambling for vaccines as Covid-19 surges threaten to complicate a global supply chain already facing unprecedented chip and component shortages. Taiwan, home to the world’s largest supply of advanced chips, that are key to almost all consumer appliances and vehicles, and Vietnam, an electronics manufacturing hub, in recent weeks have both seen factories hit by the coronavirus during their worst coronavirus waves of the pandemic. Both countri
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The Vietnamese government has asked Samsung to help finding vaccines
Vietnam is one of the unfortunate countries that have experienced a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases this month, and the local government is now asking foreign companies, including Samsung Electronics, to secure vaccines for their workers.
Bui Hoang Mai, head of the industrial park management board in the province of Bac Ninh, told
Bloomberg over the phone that
‘the government is encouraging companies to find COVID-19 vaccines for their workers.’ A similar statement was made through the Vietnamese government’s website.
The authorities want the situation to be kept under control and for the tech factories to remain operational while the involved parties do what they must to contain the virus. Among other procedures, Bac Ninh authorities have reportedly ordered factories to set up sleeping arrangements for workers on-site.
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A man walks by the headquarters of T&T Group in Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi. Photo: Ha Quan / Tuoi Tre
The Hanoi Center for Disease Control on Wednesday morning reported eight new suspected COVID-19 cases linked to a fresh cluster whose source of infection has yet to be identified.
All of these cases are traced to a cluster at T&T Group in Hoan Kiem District and the Park 11 building in the Times City urban area in Hoang Mai District.
The individuals include two men and three women aged 21 to 58 and three children aged four to ten.