Foxconn's Zhengzhou iPhone factories remain in operation amid Covid outbreaks · TechNode - TechNode

Major Chinese electronics assembler Foxconn announced connected Oct. 30 that it would put information measures for workers arsenic Covid outbreaks and lockdowns deed the metropolis of Zhengzhou, wherever it operates 3 facilities. The Zhengzhou authorities besides announced that it volition connection transport enactment and different assistance aft 1 of Foxconn’s parks went into a partial lockdown, lone allowing workers to determination betwixt factories and dormitories, according to a Foxconn announcement connected Oct. 28. The announcement came aft video clips purporting to amusement Foxconn workers bypassing information and Covid checks to ascent retired of the Zhengzhou facilities went viral connected Chinese societal media. Multiple workers astatine 1 Zhengzhou works told Chinese media outlet Caixin that it was inactive successful operation, contempt the partial lockdown, with immoderate 200,000 workers thought to beryllium affected by the restrictions. Ming-Chi Kuo, an expert for TF International Securities, posted caller survey results of Foxconn’s Zhengzhou operations connected Oct. 30, saying that “more than 10% of planetary iPhone accumulation capableness is presently affected arsenic Foxconn’s Zhengzhou iPhone plants abruptly entered closed-loop accumulation without warning.” Kuo added that the incidental volition person a constricted interaction connected iPhone shipments for the 4th fourth this twelvemonth arsenic its accumulation capableness would gradually amended wrong a fewer weeks. [Caixin, successful Chinese]