Six million inhabitants of the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, home to the world’s largest iPhone cell phone factory, are confined since this Friday, after some clashes between the police and the workers of that plant, who demand better wages.
The authorities have ordered residents of eight districts of Zhengzhou in Henan province not to leave the area for five days and erected fences around residential buildings considered “high risk”, and checkpoints to restrict movement.
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In the city only a handful of coronavirus cases were detected.
The order came after hundreds of employees at Foxconn’s iPhone factory on the outskirts of the city protest to demand better salary conditions. This Friday, new images of those marches were released.
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In a video posted on social media, a crowd is seen walking down a street in the east of the city, some with banners.
Dozens of workers left the factory on Thursday after pocketing 10,000 yuan pay (about $1,400). But, according to videos released on the Chinese apps Douyin and Kuaishou, the Taiwanese company banned many of the employees who recently joined the company from going to work.
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Many of those new employees are confined to hotels outside the plant.according to several workers said.
“We are quarantining in a hotel, and we cannot go to the Foxconn compound in any way”explained an employee.
