The world’s largest manufacturer of “iPhone” devices in China admitted, Wednesday, that it had detected large cases of Covid-19, in a country that does not impose strict health measures that force tens of millions to adhere to quarantine.
The factory located in Zhengzhou (central China) employs regarding 300,000 people. The “Foxconn” group that runs the facility confirmed that “operations and production are relatively stable”, despite monitoring the “focus” of injuries, according to AFP.
He said that “a small number” of injuries were detected, without specifying their number. He called rumors online regarding tens of thousands of infections “completely false”.
The statement added that “the effect can be controlled,” stressing that “production expectations for this quarter remain unchanged.”
China is the last major economy to implement a strict anti-Covid policy, which includes frequent closures, checks of the population several times a week, and long quarantine periods.
The most populous country in the world recorded 1,241 new infections on Wednesday, most of them without symptoms, according to the National Health Committee.
But the resurgence of infections locally prompted the authorities to take new measures, such as the closure of the Universal Resort “Universal Resort” theme park in Beijing, which was announced on Wednesday.
The park announced on its official account on the Chinese “Weibo” website, which is like Twitter in China, that it was “temporarily closed … to respect the requirements of the epidemic control,” without announcing a date for its reopening.
Japanese investment bank Nomura estimated this week that more than 200 million people in China are currently under varying measures of lockdown.
In the city of Xining (northwest of the country), where 2.5 million people reside, residents complained, Wednesday, on social media regarding the quarantine measures in their homes, and some confirmed that the number of official cases is less than the reality, which AFP might not verify.
“Xining is like Shanghai in April,” one Weibo netizen wrote, referring to the tall, hard stone that was applied in the spring in this mega city.
But the situation in Shanghai has improved since then, and the authorities began, on Wednesday, to deploy a vaccine given through the nose in this city, which set a global precedent.
The vaccine, produced by CanSino Biologics in Tianjin, was approved last month and is used as a booster dose for vaccinated people.
Pictures published by local media showed some residents inhaling the vaccine through the mouth, which is a mist that is sprayed into the nose and mouth through a sprayer.
