Some workers have been fleeing the world’s largest iPhone factory in China, after a recent Covid-19 outbreak forced them to stay in dorm rooms, according to Bloomberg, the Financial Times and other media outlets. The factory’s operator Foxconn, the contract manufacturing giant that assembles Apple products, is preparing a back-up plan to shift some of the plant’s production to other parts of...
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