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In early October, supervisors suddenly warned him that 3,000 colleagues had been taken into quarantine after someone tested positive for Covid-19 at the factory.
\"They told us not to take our masks off,\" Zhang, speaking under a pseudonym for fear of retaliation, told AFP by telephone.
What followed was a weeks-long ordeal including food shortages and the ever-present fear of infection, before he finally escaped on Tuesday.
Zhang's employer, Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn<\/a>, has said it faces a \"protracted battle\" against infections and imposed a \"closed loop\" bubble around its sprawling campus in central China's Zhengzhou city.
Local authorities locked down the area surrounding the major Apple<\/a> supplier's factory on Wednesday, but not before reports emerged of employees fleeing on foot and a lack of adequate medical care at the plant.
China is the last major economy committed to a zero-Covid strategy, persisting with snap lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines in a bid to stamp out emerging outbreaks.
But new variants have tested officials' ability to snuff out flare-ups and dragged down economic activity with the threat of sudden disruptions.
- Desperation - Multiple workers have recounted scenes of chaos and increasing disorganisation at Foxconn's complex of workshops and dormitories, which form a city-within-a-city near Zhengzhou's airport.
Zhang told AFP that \"positive tests and double lines (on antigen tests) had become a common sight\" in his workshop before he left.
\"Of course we were scared, it was so close to us.\"
\"People with fevers are not guaranteed to receive medicine,\" another Foxconn worker, a 30-year-old man who also asked to remain anonymous, told AFP.
\"We are drowning,\" he said.
Those who decided to stop working were not offered meals at their dormitories, Zhang said, adding that some were able to survive on personal stockpiles of instant noodles.
Kai, a worker at in the complex who gave an interview to state-owned Sanlian Lifeweek, told the magazine Foxconn's \"closed loop\" involved cordoning off paths between dormitory compounds and the factory, and complained he was left to his own devices<\/a> after being thrown in quarantine.
TikTok videos<\/a> geolocated by AFP showed mounds of uncollected rubbish outside buildings in late October, while employees in N95 masks squeezed onto packed shuttle buses taking them from dormitories to their work stations.
A 27-year-old woman working at Foxconn, who asked not to be named, told AFP a roommate who tested positive for Covid was sent back to her dormitory on Thursday morning, crying, after she decided to hand in her notice while in quarantine.
\"Now the three of us are living in the same room: one a confirmed case and two of us testing positive on the rapid test, still waiting for our nucleic acid test results,\" the worker told AFP.
Many became so desperate by the end of last month that they attempted to walk back to their hometowns to get around Covid transport curbs.
As videos of people dragging their suitcases down motorways and struggling up hills spread on Chinese social media, the authorities rushed in to do damage control.
The Zhengzhou city government on Sunday said it had arranged for special buses to take employees back to their hometowns.
Surrounding Henan province has officially reported a spike of more than 600 Covid cases since the start of this week.
- Distrust - When Zhang finally attempted to leave the Foxconn campus on Tuesday, he found the company had set up obstacle after obstacle.
\"There were people with loudspeakers advertising the latest Foxconn policy, saying that each day there would be a 400 yuan ($55) bonus,\" Zhang told AFP.
A crowd of employees gathered at a pick-up point in front of empty buses but were not let on.
People in hazmat suits, known colloquially as \"big whites\" in China, claimed they had been sent by the city government.
\"They tried to persuade people to stay in Zhengzhou... and avoid going home,\" Zhang said.
\"But when we asked to see their work ID, they had nothing to show us, so we suspected they were actually from Foxconn.\"
Foxconn pointed to the local government's lockdown orders from Wednesday when asked by AFP if it attempted to stop employees from leaving, without giving any further response.
The company had on Sunday said it was \"providing employees with complimentary three meals a day\" and cooperating with the government to provide transport home.
Eventually, the crowd of unhappy workers who had gathered decided to take matters into their own hands and walked over seven kilometres on foot to the nearest highway entry ramp.
There, more people claiming to be government officials pleaded with the employees to wait for the bus.
The crowd had no choice as the road was blocked.
Buses eventually arrived at five in the afternoon -- nearly nine hours after Zhang had begun his attempt to secure transport.
\"They were trying to grind us down,\" he said.
Back in his hometown, Zhang is now waiting out the home quarantine period required by the local government.
\"All I feel is, I've finally left Zhengzhou,\" he told AFP.
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十月初,上司突然警告他,3000的同事已经被隔离后有人在工厂Covid-19阳性。
“他们告诉我们不要把我们的面具,“张,因为害怕报复假名发表讲话时,通过电话告诉法新社。
随之而来的是一周的考验包括粮食短缺和感染的无所不在的恐惧,周二前他终于逃脱了。
张的雇主,台湾科技巨头富士康表示,它面临着“旷日持久的战斗”对抗感染和征收“闭环”泡沫在其庞大的校园位于中国中部的郑州城市。
地方当局锁定主要的周边地区苹果周三供应商的工厂,但在此之前,报告出现的员工逃离步行和缺乏足够的医疗护理。
中国是最后一个主要经济体致力于zero-Covid策略,坚持提前锁定,质量检测和冗长的检疫,以杜绝新兴暴发。
但是新的变体已经测试了官员的能力扼杀冲突和拖累经济活动突然中断的威胁。
——绝望——多个人员讲述了地震现场的混乱和增加杂乱无章富士康复杂的车间和宿舍,这形成一个郑州机场附近的城中城。
张告诉法新社,“积极的测试和双行(抗原测试)已经成为一种常见的景象”在他离开之前他的工作室。
“我们当然很害怕,它是如此接近我们。”
“发烧的人不能保证接收医学,”另一个富士康工人,一个30岁的男人还要求匿名,告诉法新社。
“我们是溺水,”他说。
那些决定停止工作并没有提供食物在他们的宿舍,张补充说,一些人能够生存在个人库存方便面。
凯,一个工人在复杂的国有三联Lifeweek采访时,告诉该杂志富士康的“闭环”涉及快刀斩乱麻宿舍化合物和工厂之间的路径,并抱怨他是留给自己的设备在被隔离。
TikTok视频法新社的定位显示成堆的狼狈的垃圾在10月下旬建筑外,员工在N95口罩挤上挤班车从宿舍带他们到他们的工作。
在富士康工作的一名27岁妇女,谁不愿透露姓名,告诉法新社室友Covid阳性是谁发送回她的宿舍周四上午,哭泣,她决定在通知后在隔离。
“现在我们三个人住在同一个房间里:一个是确诊病例,我们两个检测呈阳性的快速测试,仍在等待我们的核酸检测结果,“工人告诉法新社。
许多上个月年底变得如此绝望,他们试图走回家乡来绕开Covid交通限制。
视频的人拖着行李箱下高速公路,挣扎着上山在中国社交媒体传播,当局损害控制冲进来。
郑州市政府周日表示,它已经把员工安排专车回到家乡。
围绕河南省已正式公布飙升超过600 Covid情况下自本周开始。
不信任,当张最终试图离开富士康校园周二,他发现该公司已设立障碍后的障碍。
“富士康喇叭广告的最新政策,说,每天会有400元(55美元)的奖金,”张告诉法新社。
一群员工聚集在前面的空的公交车但是没有提货点。
在hazmat的人,被人称为“大白人”在中国,声称他们已经发送的市政府。
“他们试图说服人们呆在郑州……并避免回家,”张说。
“但是当我们要求看他们的工作ID,他们没有告诉我们,所以我们怀疑他们是从富士康。”
富士康指出当地政府封锁的订单周三当法新社问如果它试图阻止员工离开,但没有透露任何进一步的回应。
公司周日说,这是“为员工提供免费一日三餐”,与政府合作提供运输回家。
最终,不幸的工人聚集在一起的人群决定自己动手,走过去七公里步行到最近的高速公路入口坡道。
,更多的人自称是政府官员恳求员工等待公共汽车。
人群没有选择的路堵住了。
巴士最终到达五下午,张近9个小时后开始他试图安全传输。
“他们试图折磨我们,”他说。
回到他的家乡,张现在等待当地政府要求的检疫期。
“我感觉,我终于离开郑州,”他告诉法新社。
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