In this photo taken from video footage and released by Hangpai Xingyang, people with suitcases and bags are seen leaving from a Foxconn compound in Zhengzhou in central China's Henan Province. Workers in a Foxconn facility in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou appear to have left the facility to avoid Covid-19 curbs, with many traveling by foot days after an unknown number of factory workers were quarantined in the facility following a virus outbreak. — Hangpai Xingyang via AP
It was Sunday when Dong Wanwan decided to give up her job at the world’s largest iPhone factory and walk home.
The 20-year-old had been working for the past three months on the production lines at Foxconn Technology Group’s factory in Zhengzhou, one of tens of thousands helping put together Apple Inc iPhones that would be sent around the globe. It was a coveted job, among the country’s best-paid blue-collar gigs.
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