TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s major chip packager King Yuan Electronics will halt production on the island for two days after several employees contracted COVID-19, Central News Agency reported on Friday, the first time the pandemic has hit the global chip hub, as case numbers climb.
Hsinchu-based King Yuan, one of the island’s major chip packaging and testing firms, counts global tech giants including Intel and Samsung Electronics among its major clients.
Sixty-seven employees mostly from the Philippines and working at a King Yuan factory in the northern city of Miaoli tested positive, Taiwan’s health ministry said.
(Reporting by Yimou Lee; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
