Foxconn locked down the world's largest iPhone factory in line with China's zero-Covid policy.
Apple supplier Foxconn says it has quadrupled daily bonuses at a giant iPhone plant in China after a breakout by workers during a Covid lockdown.
The firm said the bonuses were part of an effort to "gradually resume orderly production" and "thank our fellow employees' persistence". It has not yet provided an official count of how many people had been infected by the coronavirus at the plant. However, footage shared on Chinese social media, and by the BBC's China correspondent Stephen McDonell, showed that workers were allegedly filmed escaping from the grounds to begin lengthy walks back to their hometowns, in a bid to avoid being caught on public transport.it was "total chaos in the dormitories" he and colleagues were being kept in.
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