![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/fears-of-xmas-iphone-shortage-as-covid-lockdown-leaves-factory-near-collapse/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/newspress-collage-20288020-1667311792474.jpg&description=CHINA'S brutal Covid lockdown could lead to a Christmas iPhone shortage as the factory where they're made faces collapse. The world's biggest iPhone factory in the city of Zhengzhou employs 200,000 people, with many living in dormitories on the vast site. The Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou is the world's biggest iPhone factory Footage reportedly shot at the factory has previously showed workers in lockdown at the siteCredit: Twitter/@Jack69905467 Other video showed workers vaulting fences as they fled the factoryCredit: TikTok Insiders suggest many have begun lengthy walks back to their hometownsCredit: TikTok The factory's problems come in the run up to ChristmasCredit: Getty Along with many other places in China, the city of Zhengzhou has been placed into lockdown under President Xi Jinping's 'Zero Covid' policy. But amid fights over food and squalid conditions, thousands have escaped the lockdown to return home. That's left factory owner Foxconn already having to cut production by a third in the run up to Christmas, Reuters reports. Last year about a third of £165billion in iPhone sales happened between the final quarter of the year, according to Apple. Apple has already warned of shortages this Christmas, with supply chain issues earlier in the year and the rapid sales of the iPhone 14 seemingly to blame. Foxconn is desperately trying to shift production to other plants, including one in Shenzhen, in south China. The Taiwanese firm has also quadrupled bonuses for workers in a desperate bid to get them to stay and calm the situation at the factory. Under China's ultra-strict Covid lockdowns, local areas must act swiftly to quell outbreaks. Factories in affected areas are often allowed to stay open on condition they operate under a "closed loop" system where staff live and work on-site. Foxconn banned dining at canteens at the Zhengzhou plant with workers forced to eat meals in dormitories. As a result, scuffles then erupted between employees over food, with only wo){kind=link}
CHINA’S brutal Covid lockdown could lead to a Christmas iPhone shortage as the factory where they’re made faces collapse.
The world’s biggest iPhone factory in the city of Zhengzhou employs 200,000 people, with many living in dormitories on the vast site.
Along with many other places in China, the city has been placed into strict lockdown under President Xi Jinping’s ‘Zero Covid’ policy.
But amid fights over food and squalid conditions, thousands have escaped the lockdown to return home.
That’s left factory owner Foxconn already having to cut production by a third in the run up to Christmas, Reuters reports.