According to Yonhap News Agency, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics have successively announced that their factories in Mexico will extend the factory shutdown time in response to local government policies.
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It is understood that the original plan to restore the Samsung TV factory in Tijuana, Mexico this week will be postponed until May 3 to resume work.
LG's TV plant in Reynosa, Mexico, was originally scheduled to restart on the same day, but now it has been announced to be extended to 26th, while the TV plant in Mexicali has announced an extension of 6 days.
As for the reason for the delay, the main reason is that the number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Mexico is increasing. Mexico previously announced that the time for maintaining social distance across the country was 30th this month, and it has now been extended to 30th next month.
In addition to Mexico, LG also decided to extend the shutdown of the television factory in Manaus, Brazil.
This is not the first time that the factories of Samsung and LG have been shut down due to the epidemic. According to previous reports from Jiwei, Samsung and LG's factories in India also extended the shutdown to 3rd of next month.
On April 12, an employee of Samsung Display's factory in Bac Ninh Province, Vietnam, tested positive for the new coronavirus. The Vietnamese authorities then ordered Samsung Display to take quarantine measures against the employees of the factory.
In late March, its Noida smartphone factory near New Delhi, India, and the Slovakia TV manufacturing plant were ordered to be temporarily closed by the Indian government; in addition, all stores in the United States and Canada have also been closed.
