The American company Apple was forced to temporarily close all retail stores in California and London amid strict closures in those cities with the escalation of infections again around the world with the Corona virus.

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According to Arabianet, the company said in a statement on its website that it is about to close all of its about 53 retail stores in California after one day From similar closures in Los Angeles and San Francisco, at a time when the company did not disclose when the stores would reopen, according to Bloomberg.

The company has also closed its stores in Mexico and Brazil, and all of these sites have moved to a front-end express delivery service for orders last week.

and the number rises to close to 100 closed stores when including the stores that closed in Germany and the Netherlands last week, leaving nearly a fifth of the company's sites now closed worldwide .

The company has about 270 stores in the United States, while the number of its stores around the world is about 510 stores, all of which were almost completely closed for long weeks in the midst of the Corona pandemic that is sweeping The world continues to claim lives around the clock since the beginning of this year.

The company also closed a number of its stores during the last period in the United States after a large number of them were subjected to looting and theft in the midst of the demonstrations in the US states after the killing of an American citizen African-American George Floyd at the hands of a local police officer.

and the closure comes this time in the midst of the holiday season, in which the company is counting on increasing its sales while targeting to achieve sales estimated at $ 100 billion from the new iPhone 12 and other products. Recently announced by the company.

The state of California has become the epicenter of the epidemic in the United States during the past few weeks, at a time when the number of infections has exceeded until yesterday, Saturday, and since the start of the pandemic, about 1.8 million cases after adding injuries Daily estimated at 44 thousand injuries.

Apple added in its statement, in view of the current situation of COVID-19 infections in the areas in which we operate and provide our services, we will temporarily close our stores in those areas. We are monitoring the situation closely and look forward to the return of our employees and customers as soon as possible.