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Hong Kong halts trains from mainland China as virus spreads

BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader has announced that all rail links to mainland China will be cut starting Friday as fears grow about the spread of a new virus. Chief Executive Carrie Lam said Tuesday that both the high-speed rail station and the regular train station would be closed.

China’s death toll from a new viral disease that is causing mounting global concern rose by 25 to at least 106 on Tuesday as the United States and other governments prepared to fly their citizens out of the locked-down city at center of the outbreak.

Factbox: Latest on the coronavirus spreading in China and beyond

(Reuters) - The coronavirus outbreak that began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, in the province of Hubei, has killed 106 people in China and infected more than 4,520 globally, most of them in China.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-latest-factbox-idUSKBN1ZR09L

Apple supply chain braces for disruption from coronavirus outbreak

• Each of the main iPhone assembly locations in China is more than 500 kilometres away from Wuhan

• Apple’s preparations to begin mass production of a new low-cost iPhone could be at risk

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3047911/apple-supply-chain-braces-disruption-coronavirus-outbreak

Virtually all of the world’s iPhones are made in China, primarily by Foxconn Technology Group – formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer – at its so-called iPhone City in Zhengzhou and by Pegatron Corp at an assembly site near Shanghai. Each of those locations is more than 500 kilometres away from Wuhan in central China, the epicentre of the viral outbreak, but that distance does not immunise them from its effects.