Apple Closes All 53 California Shops And A Dozen Extra Elsewhere As COVID-19 Surges

Apple is briefly closing all 53 of its shops in California and a minimum of a dozen others elsewhere within the nation as COVID-19 circumstances proceed to climb.

The shutdowns will happen simply days earlier than Christmas, one of many highest-volume purchasing occasions of the yr.

“As a result of present COVID-19 circumstances in a number of the communities we serve, we’re briefly closing shops in these areas,” Apple stated in an announcement obtained by Bloomberg Saturday. “We take this step with an abundance of warning as we intently monitor the scenario and we stay up for having our groups and prospects again as quickly as doable.”

A message from Apple on the web sites of its California shops warned prospects that the retailers had been “briefly closing quickly.” However they’ll stay open for pickup of current on-line orders, scheduled in-store Genius assist and for beforehand reserved one-on-one purchasing periods till Tuesday.

California has turn out to be the COVID-19 hotspot of the nation in latest weeks with 1.8 million circumstances and greater than 22,000 deaths. Common day by day circumstances are numbering greater than 40,000.

Apple can also be closing shops in Tennessee, Utah, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Alaska and New Mexico, USA At the moment reported. As well as, it has shut down retailers in Mexico, Brazil and London, the place stringent coronavirus restrictions have been put in place as circumstances of a harmful new variant of COVID-19 surge.