Zhengzhou authorities, home to the world’s largest iPhone phone factory, They ordered to confine several districts of this city in the midst of an outbreak of covid-19 which has sparked panic and violent protests.
Residents of downtown Zhengzhou must not leave their homes "unless necessary"the local government said Wednesday night.
Also, They cannot leave the area if they do not present a negative covid test and get permission from authorities, he added.
The restrictions, which will last at least five days from midnight Friday, will affect more than six million people, about half the population of this city in central China.
The government notice also requires residents of eight districts to undergo a daily covid test during this period.
This order comes after the Violent protests erupt at the vast industrial complex in the city of tech firm Foxconnwhere the largest production of iPhone phones in the world is located.
The factory imposed anti-covid restrictions on its own for a month to prevent the proliferation of infections among its workforce.
Images of workers fleeing the factory on foot surfaced last month amid allegations of poor working conditions at the facility.
The Zhengzhou municipal government said on Wednesday that the outbreak in the city was "still serious and complicated".
The Asian giant announced on Thursday a record of daily infections since the start of the pandemic, with 31,454 new casesa relatively low figure in a population of 1.4 billion people.
Of these new infections, 675 were registered in Zhengzhou, the vast majority asymptomatic.
