Foxconn: end of Covid in the giant factory that produces the iPhone 14?

The giant factory where the majority of iPhone would have finally overcome the Covid epidemic.

And production could quickly return to its normal level, while 90% of shipments for the month of December have been assured.

The end of a difficult period

The giant Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China had a very difficult fall. Employees at the time had to deal with a Covid epidemic, which had led to the quarantine of the site, all while suffering late payments. So much so that riots eventually broke out in iPhone City, leading to violent police action as thousands of workers simply fled their workplaces.

Since then, things have softened, with management promising bonuses in particular to apologize. And the situation on the production lines has also improved a lot according to information from Reuters. ” Production has fully resumed “, thus indicated one of the sources of the agency. Important information for many consumers around the world, since the factory manufactures the vast majority of iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max.

One downside: the explosion of Covid-19 in China

But if health has taken over in iPhone City, a remnant of concern persists. A second person interviewed by Reuters thus indicates that the management wants to remain cautious on its announcements, because of the epidemic explosion currently undergoing by China.

” We expect a spike in cases before or after the Lunar New Year holiday [le dimanche 22 janvier : NDLR] she explains. Before adding: and we don’t know if it will cause any problems “. With the sudden abandonment of almost all the restrictions of the zero Covid policy previously imposed by Beijing, it is estimated that nearly 300 million people were infected in China in the first three weeks of December.

The Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, located in Henan in the center of the country, has 200,000 workers. At the height of the riots last November, some 20,000 employees had left their posts.

Source : Reuters