The Chinese government has taken a series of measures to bring the coronavirus outbreak under control. Movements are being restricted with the existing quarantine control, and people are not able to return to their work. Businesses are being affected across the nation and those related to crypto are not left out.

A crypto mining farm in the country is being forced to shut down during the epidemic. The CEO of BTC.top, Jiang Zhuoer, said all the mining machines in one of the mining farms he owns in a remote are in China have been forced to shut down.

According to Zhuoer, the firm has been told that it’s not allowed to resume work at the moment. He claims that, before the quarantine control period, the workers at the mining farm have never seized working and none of the maintenance staff has ever left the site.

The outbreak has also affected giant mining companies such as Bitmain, Canaan and MicroBT. They have published notices on their websites of delays in their after-sale services until February 10.

The coronavirus outbreak timespan overlaps with bitcoin’s halving event, which is less than 100 days away. As such, mining companies are worried that these two events are going to significantly impact on the maintenance of mining equipment and delivery of new mining machines.