Japanese component maker Murata to close key plant over COVID-19 cluster -Nikkei

Murata Manufacturing Co

26/08/2021 06:59

Aug 26 (Reuters) - Electronics component maker Murata
Manufacturing Co Ltd  6981.T  will close a key plant in Japan
until at least next week, following a cluster outbreak of
COVID-19, the Nikkei newspaper said https://s.nikkei.com/3ykOm6S.
    The Echizen plant in the central prefecture of Fukui, where
7,000 people work, will be shut until Aug. 31 after 98
infections were reported by Tuesday, it added.

 (Reporting by Anirudh Saligrama in Bengaluru; Editing by
Clarence Fernandez)
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