COVID-19: India pauses phone manufacturing for major brands

With the spread of COVID-19 continuing to impact business around the world, we take a look at the mobile phone industry, the latest to be hit by the pandemic. With the current total of cases within India reaching 513, with 11 deaths, multiple states within India have issued lockdowns - like many others around the world - to curb the speed of the Coronavirus COVID-19. The effect of these lockdowns again like many others have resulted in the closure of production activities. In particular, within India, this includes a large amount of smartphone manufacturers present in the region - the second-largest smartphone market. Those who have closed their factories so far include Samsung, Vivo, Oppo and LG for various different lengths of time.