workers are departing apples biggest iphone plant in china seeking to escape hastily enacted covid measures that left many of the 200000 staff grappling with inadequate living conditionslocal authorities from several regions in the central henan province said they will receive homegoing workers from foxconn technology group after strict covid curbs were imposed at the worlds largest iphone plant in zhengzhou to quell an outbreak according to official posts online read alsochina ramps up lockdowns covid restrictions across countryfresh lockdowns are being imposed from wuhan covids original epicenter to chinas industrial belt on the east coast schools and dining in at restaurants in the southern manufacturing powerhouse of guangzhou have been suspended while targeted shutdowns in the metropolises of beijing and shanghaivedantafoxconn to establish chip plant at gujarats dholera minister rajeev chandrasekharindias first semiconductor fab unit will be set up in dholera by a jointventure entity formed by vedanta limited and foxconn for a 20 billion investment according to rajeev chandrasekhar union minister of state for electronics and information technology reports niyati parikh7 ways india can make taiwan its strongest partner everfoxconnvedanta chip project should be the start of a deep delhitaipei engagementchinas q4 gdp hits early speed bump as covid stifles economychinas economic growth is hitting an early speed bump in the fourth quarter as covid19 curbs and anxieties further tapped the brakes on travel and shipping constraining consumption and commerce in the worlds secondlargest economyat least six counties and cities in henan asked residents who just left foxconn to contact local authorities before going home workers will be sent to several days of mandatory isolation according to official posts on wechat cities such as mengzhou and luoyang have arranged buses to ferry workers to isolation sites according to the posts the government of dagang county has dispatched buses and officials to help ferry employees to quarantine sites for a sevenday compulsory isolation before allowing them to go home it said in a wechat postvideos and pictures of employees leaving the campus flooded social media over the weekend depicting local residents offering food and shelter to some of the departing staff bloomberg hasnt verified the authenticity of the contenttensions at the zhengzhou plant underscore the economic and social costs of xi jinpings covid zero policy a rigorously policed system of mass testing and quarantine lockdowns that has fostered growing resentment it also shows the potential risk to global supply chains and products from chinas approach which demands lockdowns business restrictions and mass testing drives when even one covid case emergesfood scarcitydiscontent has been brewing among staff at foxconns main factory in zhengzhou where the emergence of covid cases saw it go into a closed loop system food became a source of unrest after the taiwanese company that makes most iphones sold around the world shut cafeterias at the manufacturing site known as iphone city at one point only workers on production lines were given meal boxes with those infected or afraid to leave their companyprovided dormitories given more basic