Covid closes clothing factories in Vietnam
Reports from Vietnam say that around one in three of Vietnam’s textiles, clothing and sports footwear factories are closed because of an increase in covid-19 cases there.
Mid-August figures showed that Vietnam had registered almost 200,000 new cases of covid-19 in the previous 28 days. This is lower than the figures for many other countries, but represents 85% of all the cases that Vietnam has had since the start of the pandemic early last year and the country’s vaccination programme is rolling out only slowly.
According to comments that the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) has given to local media, smaller and medium-sized factories face the prospect of remaining closed for a lengthy period because business owners cannot afford to put in place the on-site measures necessary to allow production to continue.
VITAS said that around 90% of the Vietnamese textiles, apparel and footwear industry is disrupted.
Nike is one of the brands to have issued warnings about the effect Vietnam closures may have on its supply chain.
