COVID-hit Foxconn vows to ensure safe return of employees; epidemic situation generally under control
By GT staff reporters
Published: Oct 30, 2022 11:39 PM
The world's largest electronics contractor Foxconn issued three notices consecutively on Sunday to its factory workers at the Zhengzhou park in Central China's Henan Province, saying that arrangements and security protection measures have been made for employees who volunteer to stay in the park and those who wish to return home, after video clips that showed some workers allegedly from the park walking back home due to a COVID-19 outbreak sparked heated discussion during the weekend.
In the video clips, a number of workers allegedly from Foxconn are seen walking back to their hometowns with their bags on their backs. Along the way, many locals filled up the crossroads with drinking water and food - some on the ground while some in open cars, with a sign written "supply station for returnees from Foxconn."
The clips emerged after a COVID-19 outbreak hit the iPhone maker on October 25. On the next day, the company denied rumors claiming that about 20,000 staff had been diagnosed with COVID-19 at the company's Zhengzhou park. Only "a small number of employees" had been affected and production at the Zhengzhou park remained "relatively stable," the company said in a statement it sent to the Global Times on that day.
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