Now that the COVID-19 outbreak has been around for a few months, it's increasingly clear what danger it can play to individuals' health, as well as economies, manufacturers and individual factories In China, as little as 11% of employees are able to come to work in some factories . And at the end of last week, Samsung closed its fab in Gumi, South Korea after confirming a case of coronavirus.

“The company has placed colleagues who came in contact with the infected employee in self-quarantine and taken steps to have them tested for possible infection,” Samsung told Reuters .

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The factory was disinfected over the weekend and has been re-opened, as reported by The Korea Times . However, the floor where the infected employee worked will stay closed until February 25.

The Gumi factory is one of Samsung's smaller locations with lower output and manufactures high-end smartphones, such as the Galaxy Z Flip and Galaxy Fold.

Samsung has stated that it won't be increasing the prices of the units to compensate for the brief shutdown.