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Cities in central China have hastily drawn up plans to isolate migrant workers fleeing to their hometowns from the world’s largest iPhone factory, amid fears they will spread a coronavirus outbreak from Zhengzhou where the Foxconn plant is based.
The city, capital of central Henan province, reported 167 locally transmitted Covid cases in the seven days to 29 October, up from 97 infections in the previous seven-day period.
Apple supplier Foxconn, headquartered in Taiwan, currently has about 200,000 workers at its Zhengzhou complex and has not disclosed the number of infected workers, nor the number who have left, but said on Sunday that it would not stop them from departing.
Late on Saturday, nearby cities including Yuzhou, Changge and Qinyang urged Foxconn workers to report to local authorities before heading home.
Returning workers are to travel “point-to-point” in pre-arranged vehicles and are to be quarantined on arrival, they said in separate letters on their respective social media accounts addressed to Zhengzhou Foxconn workers.
