World's Largest iPhone Factory Braces for Fresh COVID-19 Outbreak - PCMag

Foxconn Technology Group implemented a fig of caller enactment policies this week successful a bid to power the dispersed of a caller COVID-19 outbreak successful the metropolis of Zhengzhou, China.

Foxconn's Zhengzhou determination is location to the world's largest iPhone factory, and the institution is hopeless to support accumulation moving determination portion besides adhering to the Chinese government's strict Zero-COVID policy. That's a hard task erstwhile you see the field is location to astir 300,000 workers, galore of whom unrecorded successful dormitories together.

COVID-19 tin dispersed precise rapidly wrong groups of people, truthful Foxconn is aiming to bounds enactment arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable among its employees. Each idiosyncratic is being provided with 3 meals a time for free, but are lone allowed to devour them successful their dorms. "Eating in" has been banned by the company, truthful nary communal meals are allowed for the foreseeable future. N95 masks are required to beryllium worn, adjacent successful dorms, and workers are tested daily.

Those departments specifically liable for iPhone accumulation are besides being offered transport subsidies to get them to and from their dorms with arsenic small enactment arsenic possible, and a tiny wage bonus for ever being astatine enactment connected time.

Where workers are allowed to question connected field is being restricted to circumstantial routes, and immoderate workers who unrecorded distant from the field are being asked to determination into dorms. A fig of entrances to the field are present closed arsenic a further measurement to bounds travel.

The strict caller measures were lone implemented this week, but a Foxconn spokesperson told the South China Morning Post(Opens successful a caller window) that, "Production successful the Zhengzhou field remains normal, without a notable interaction [from the COVID-19] situation."

So far, 7 cases of COVID-19 person been confirmed successful Zhengzhou, which is location to 10 cardinal people. However, if Foxconn is capable to confine its workers to the campus, it whitethorn debar a wider outbreak successful the metropolis and Apple tin proceed to person the iPhones it ordered.