iPhone factory workers in China 'escape covid deaths'

The world's largest factory producing iPhones for Apple in China was forced to deny claims that eight of its workers had died during a Covid outbreak.

Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn was responding to a video that was shared widely on social media claiming that workers had died after being confined to a dormitory.

The video showed a woman in white protective suit screaming into the courtyard of a residential compound, with dozens of other staff standing around her.

“Everybody take a look, Room 726, all dead, my god!” the woman can be heard shouting.

Similar posts were shared on Chinese social media including Douyin, the local equivalent of TikTok.