The world’s largest manufacturer of “iPhone” devices in China admitted on Wednesday that it had detected large cases of Covid-19 in a country that does not impose stringent health measures that force tens of millions of people to adhere to quarantine.
The factory located in Zhengzhou (central China) employs about 300,000 people. The “Foxconn” group that manages the facility confirmed that “operations and production are relatively stable,” despite monitoring the “focus” of injuries, according to the AFP.
He said “a small number” of injuries were detected, without specifying the number. He called the online rumors of tens of thousands of infections “completely false”.
The statement adds that “the effect can be controlled”, underlining that “production expectations for this quarter remain unchanged”.
China is the latest major economy to implement a strict anti-Covid policy, which includes frequent closures, population checks several times a week and long quarantine periods.
The most populous country in the world recorded 1,241 new infections on Wednesday, most without symptoms, according to the National Health Committee.
But the resurgence of infections at the local level has prompted the authorities to adopt new measures, such as the closure of the “Universal Resort” theme park of the Universal Resort in Beijing, announced Wednesday.
The park announced on its official account on the Chinese site “Weibo”, which is like Twitter in China, that it had been “temporarily closed … to comply with the epidemic control requirements”, without announcing a date for its reopening. .
Japanese investment bank Nomura estimated this week that over 200 million people in China are currently under various lockdown measures.
In the city of Xining (in the north-west of the country), where 2.5 million people reside, residents complained on social media about quarantine measures in their homes on Wednesday, and some confirmed that the number of cases officers is inferior to reality, which AFP could not verify.
“Xining is like Shanghai in April,” wrote a Weibo netizen, referring to the tall, hard stone that was applied to this mega city in the spring.
But the situation in Shanghai has improved since then and authorities began distributing a vaccine administered through the nose in this city on Wednesday, which set a global precedent.
The vaccine, manufactured by CanSino Biologics in Tianjin, was approved last month and is used as a booster dose for vaccinated people.
Pictures published by local media showed some residents inhaling the vaccine through their mouth, which is a mist that is sprayed into the nose and mouth through a sprayer.
