An iPhone plant in China that has come to symbolise worker discontent with harsh COVID curbs will continue to isolate its operations and staff despite the lift of a seven-day lockdown for the rest of the industrial park in which it is located.
Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn (2317.TW) told Reuters on Wednesday its massive Zhengzhou plant in central China will maintain so-called closed-loop operations - a system where staff live and work on-site isolated from the wider world.
It did not say how long it expects the closed-loop system - imposed at the plant since mid-October - to remain in place.
The Zhengzhou plant is the world's largest iPhone factory with some 200,000 workers. In recent weeks, many have fled - their escapes captured on social media - frustrated over how COVID cases were handled and the treatment of employees including what they said were insufficient provisions of food.
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