Covid Outbreak at China iPhone Plant Pushes Workers to the Edge
- Workers seethe over curbs at Foxconn’s main Chinese facility
- Social media erupts with posts as Covid flares up on campus
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Discontent rippled through Apple Inc.’s biggest iPhone plant in China this week, after hastily enacted measures aimed at quelling a Covid outbreak plunged many of its 200,000 workers into isolation -- some without proper meals.
The emergence of cases at Foxconn Technology Group’s main factory in the central city of Zhengzhou saw it go into a closed loop system, where employees aren’t allowed to leave the manufacturing campus and are tested regularly, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News.