(Yicai Global) March 21 -- Several firms in southern China's Shenzhen, including iPhone assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry, have resumed normal operations after the city's seven-day lockdown due to new Covid-19 cases.

Hon Hai, also known as Foxconn, has reopened two major facilities in Shenzhen, the New Taipei City-based company announced today. Production was halted on March 14 amid Shenzhen's Covid-19 control measures.

The southern tech hub's government said at a press conference yesterday that the city can today resume normal work as most of the recent new Covid-19 cases have been found in quarantine facilities, contained areas, or among key groups, while most areas in the city have reported no new cases for days.

Huawei Technologies is restarting production in an orderly manner, the Shenzhen-based telecoms giant said to Yicai Global yesterday. Huawei has reduced its rents or hosted service suppliers for free in its industrial park to ease pressures on merchants.

Some 90 percent of car parts maker Autel Intelligent Technology's workers have also returned to work in Shenzhen, the electronic equipment manufacturer said in a note on an investor platform yesterday. Some 80 percent of normal capacity has been reached via a hybrid model of on-site and online work, it added.

The break lasted for a week. Municipal authorities said on March 13 that all enterprises, except for essential public service providers, should suspend on-site operations for Shenzhen to carry out three rounds of mass nucleic acid testing.

Shenzhen reported 44 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases yesterday, some 33 of them are symptomatic and 11 asymptomatic, according to the health commission. This year, the city has detected 885 locally transmitted infections.

Editor: Emmi Laine, Xiao Yi