The issues attributable to epidemic measures and motion restrictions on the manufacturing facility in Cingcou got here to the fore with the posts made on social media platforms in China.
Within the posts, it was claimed that “closed circuit” manufacturing began within the facility, the place roughly 300 thousand staff work, from the primary week of October, the campus was closed with steel limitations, consuming in cafeterias and cafeterias was prohibited, and staff had been allowed to go to their dormitories on campus utilizing solely sure routes.
Within the posts that drew consideration to the negligence within the implementation of epidemic safety measures, it was claimed that the manufacturing facility administration didn’t intervene within the circumstances in a well timed method, that the employees with Covid-19 had been remoted of their dormitory rooms, and a body of workers had been quarantined in a dormitory constructing whose building was not but accomplished. Whereas the employees in quarantine complained that they weren’t supplied with sufficient meals and well being care, posts expressing their issues on social media had been censored.
In an announcement, Foxconn confirmed that “a small variety of staff had been affected by the epidemic”, whereas arguing that the measures had been taken in accordance with native epidemic safety insurance policies.
“For the small variety of staff affected by the outbreak, Foxconn offers the mandatory safeguards for survival, together with monetary wants, psychological help and immediate suggestions, in accordance with native epidemic prevention insurance policies,” the assertion stated.
Apple didn’t touch upon the matter.
Within the metropolis of Cingcou of 10 million, the place Foxconn’s manufacturing facility is positioned, 26 circumstances have been detected within the final 24 hours, 3 of which present indicators of sickness, whereas it’s unknown whether or not staff are included on this complete.
Using quarantine measures, regardless of the small variety of circumstances and nearly all of them displaying no indicators of sickness, signifies that China will insist on strict epidemic management measures known as “zero circumstances”.
The technique, aimed toward suppressing Covid-19 circumstances the place they come up and reducing the chain of transmission, requires strict and large-scale measures similar to quarantine, journey restrictions, mass testing, limiting or sustaining closed-circuit actions of companies within the manufacturing, commerce and companies sector. Along with interfering with the bizarre circulation of life, the measures additionally result in discussions by way of their financial prices.