Even China’s strict censorship has not succeeded in eliminating videos of workers climbing over the mesh fence with their suitcases.
Kirsi Crowley,
Alina Mäkynen
China continues to take exceptionally strict measures to prevent corona cases.
In recent days, videos have been circulating on the country’s social media in which employees escape from the Foxconn factory that manufactures Apple phones, where they were closed for corona quarantine in mid-October.
China’s largest iPhone factory is located in central China in the city of Zhengzhou.
According to an anonymous employee interviewed by Reuters, 20,000 people have been quarantined.
Foxconn told Reuters on Sunday that workers could leave the factory if they wanted to. Based on the video footage, people have had to climb over fences from the area and walk long distances back to their hometowns.
Reporter for the British Broadcasting Company BBC Stephen McDonell shared a photo of fleeing people on his Twitter account.
Even China’s strict censorship has not succeeded in eliminating videos of workers climbing over the mesh fence with their suitcases. China’s Twitter-style social media application Weibo commented on the workers’ conditions.
– To be honest, I’m more worried about running out of food than the virus, the user wrote.
Netizens also demanded the factory reveal the number of infections. The factory employs a total of 200,000 people.
Some also questioned the continuation of the steep corona restrictions for a third year.
– The disease no longer looks as fatal as before. The Foxconn case can be seen as a big herd protection experiment in China, the user stated.
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