Workers leave iPhone factory in Zhengzhou amid COVID curbs: Foxconn workers climb over fences carrying their belongings down the road to flee quarantine

Associated Press ^ | 10/30/2022

[SeekAndFind]

Workers in a manufacturing facility in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou appear to have left to avoid COVID-19 curbs, with many traveling on foot for days after an unknown number of employees were quarantined in the facility after a virus outbreak.

Videos circulating on Chinese social media platforms showed people who are allegedly Foxconn workers climbing over fences and carrying their belongings down the road.

The Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou, Henan province, is one of the largest factories in China that assembles products for Apple Inc., including its latest iPhone 14 devices.

Not all the videos that showed workers purportedly leaving the facility could be verified. It is unclear if the workers leaving the facility had escaped or if they were allowed to leave.

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Volunteers from nearby villages put out food and drinks for the Foxconn workers. One such volunteer, who asked to be identified only by his surname Zhang out of privacy concerns, was put in charge of distributing supplies that his village in Xingyang county had prepared. He said that the people shown in a video he uploaded to the short-video platform Douyin were Foxconn workers because they would have to take that road if they were leaving the facility.

The workers’ exodus comes after reports that Foxconn had placed a number of workers under quarantine following a COVID-19 outbreak in the factory.

The Foxconn facility in Zhengzhou can accommodate up to 350,000 factory workers, but it is not clear how many are currently employed by the factory. It is also unclear how many of them have left, or how many were affected by COVID-19 curbs implemented in the factory prior to their departure.

[SeekAndFind]

Earlier this week, media reports said that a “closed-loop” system had been implemented in the factory that largely restricts workers to movements between their residence and the plant.

[NWFree]

Does this mean they’ll stop running those awful iPhone commercials for a while?

[minnesota_bound]

The slaves are revolting!
Xi Jinping: They certainly are!

[dennisw]

Too bad FReeper Sword Master has vanished. He would have liked this

[Fai Mao]

I hate Apple products

[dennisw]

“I hate Apple products”

Last Christmas got a Sammy A51. With 4GB memory // 100 dollars at Amazon.......It’s on tracfone but I can unlock it anytime. I will never buy A/crapple product/ So over hyped like the Kung Flu vaxxxxxes.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[ronnie raygun]

Their fake covid lockdown scam is not working, remember Shanghai people were locked in their apartment buildings for weeks with no food