Apple reopens all stores in China as coronavirus wanes

Apple has reopened all of its stores in China as the deadly coronavirus outbreak wanes there.
The tech giant’s 42 branded stores across mainland China were due to open for business Friday, according to a company spokesman. Apple had shuttered its Chinese stores in early February because of concerns about the coronavirus, which first emerged in the city of Wuhan.
The company reopened the shops gradually over the last several weeks, and 38 of them were up and running as of last week, according to Bloomberg News.

The full resumption of Apple’s retail operations in China comes as the coronavirus crisis subsides in the country while it escalates elsewhere.
The disease has sickened more than 80,000 people in China, but the number of new reported cases fell to just 26 on Wednesday from the peak of 15,200 on Feb. 12, according to World Health Organization data.
Last month, Apple cited the store closures as a factor in the slumping demand for its products in China, one of two main reasons the company said it would miss its revenue guidance for the March quarter. The other was constraints in the company’s iPhone supply, which was affected by virus-related factory closures in China.
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