About 200,000 people work in this factory and most of them live on the factory premises, in dormitories.
The Taiwanese technology company Foxconn finished on Thursday the lockdown in the largest production plant iPhone worldwide – which has been operating in “closed circuit” for 56 days – following the general relaxation of health measures to deal with covid-19 in China.
“Given (…) the lifting of epidemiological control measures in China, the company requires all its employees to present a negative PCR test within 48 hours before they can return to work,” the company said in a statement, which was posted on the official WeChat account of ‘iPhone city’, Foxconn’s main factory in China, which is located in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province.
The company asked its workers who had left the “closed circuit” “bubble” to return to work “as soon as possible”.
Foxconn has thus ended the lockdown at its factory after 56 days, during which workers could only travel from their dormitories to their workplaces on designated buses.
About 200,000 people work in this factory and most of them live on the factory premises, in dormitories.
Since October, when an increase in covid-19 cases was observed, the factory has been in lockdown.
At the end of November, hundreds of workers had demonstrated, expressing their anger at their living conditions in this “closed circuit” regime. Other workers fled the factory, which caused a labor shortage.
China’s health authorities on Wednesday announced a general easing of measures to tackle the covid-19, after angry protests erupted in several of the country’s cities, in hopes of recovering the world’s second-largest economy that has been suffocating under a “zero covid” policy. ».
The problems caused by the lockdown in the operation of the Foxconn factory had serious effects on the supply chain, but also on the company itself.
In November, Foxconn’s turnover fell by 11.4% year-on-year. The company had already announced that it had revised down its forecasts for the fourth quarter of the year. Some analysts estimated a drop in sales of up to 20%.
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