Most other governments have ended anti-virus controls and now rely on vaccinations and immunity from past infections to help prevent deaths and serious illness.īusinesses and residential communities from the manufacturing center of Guangzhou in the south to Beijing in the north are in various forms of lockdowns, measures that particularly affects blue-collar migrant workers. While the number of cases and deaths is relatively low compared to the US and other countries, China’s ruling Communist Party remains committed to a “zero-COVID” strategy that aims to isolate every case and eliminate the virus entirely. This week, authorities reported China’s first COVID-19 deaths in six months, bringing the total to 5,232. The daily caseload has been steadily increasing. That’s the highest daily figure since the coronavirus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.
In the previous 24 hours, the number of new COVID cases rose by 31,444, the National Health Commission said Thursday. Foxconn, the Taiwan-based owner of the factory, apologized on Thursday for what it called “an input error in the computer system” and said it would guarantee that the pay is the same as agreed to and in official recruitment posters. During clashes on Tuesday (November 22) and Wednesday (November 23), Zhengzhou Police beat workers protesting over a pay dispute at the biggest factory for Apple’s iPhone, located in an industrial zone near the city.
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