The largest factory in the world which produces the Apple iPhone in Chinaannounced it on Tuesday quadruples the bonuses of employees who remain in the plantafter many of them They will leave the place to avoid covid-19 imprisonment, in the context of the implementation of the government’s “zero covid” policy.
Daily bonuses for workers of giant corporate structures Foxconnheadquartered in Zhengzhou city, part of a unit responsible for the production of electronic products, sIn November it was raised from 100 to 400 yuan (equivalent to $ 55) per working day.
While, staff will also receive additional bonuses if they come to work 15 days or more in Novemberup to 15,000 yuan if they register full participation this month.
Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, It is Apple’s largest iPhone maker, producing 70% of iPhone shipments globally.
Currently produces most of the phones in the Zhengzhou plant, where it employs about 200 thousand people, although it has other smaller manufacturing centers in India and southern China.
The company did not disclose whether workers at the Zhengzhou plant were diagnosed with the coronavirus, but an executive told the local newspaper. Henan daily that “no serious infections had occurred” and that the company “had created a team to quarantine infected personnel”.
On the other hand, the workers reported on Chinese social networks bad working conditions y inadequate sanitary measures for healthy people. Videos posted over the weekend on the Internet showed Foxconn employees running away from the companyalso suitcase in hand, to return on foot to their homes, and avoid imprisonment due to covid-19.
They released the tourists who had remained isolated at Disneyland Shanghai
S Shanghai authorities have allowed all visitors who were in the Disneyland theme park to leave on Mondaywhen its immediate closure was decreed for the discovery of a positive for covid-19 which had been on the whole.
In response to user questions, this was stated by the official account through which the Shanghai government publishes information on the social network WeChat “all the visitors to the park had left safely.”
The authorities specified that all evidence, both to people and to the park’s materials and installations, it had been negativeand announced that measures have been taken to disinfect certain areas of the enclosure.
According to local media, about 19,000 people were in the park when it was closed, then they were trapped in the enclosure until they underwent a PCR test and got a negative result.
In this sense, the health officials specified that the infected person had been in the park and in two restaurants. For this reason more than 700 “close contacts” had to be moved to quarantine facilities.
How is the status of the coronavirus in China
China is the latest major economy to maintain a zero-covid strategy, with blockades, mass testing and extended quarantines to eradicate outbreaks. However, the new variants, which are spreading rapidly, are believed to have made early detection of outbreaks difficult.
A recent example happened in the Macau Territory, where massive tests were reported for its 700,000 inhabitants after detecting several cases.
As of this Tuesday, China has reported over two thousand local infections for the second consecutive day, which has led to new restrictions.
