meng.huat Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) Apple-supplier Foxconn tells employees not to visit China over holiday amid concerns over Wuhan virus TAIPEI: Foxconn, a key supplier to Apple, has asked employees from its Wuhan plant in China who are in Taiwan for the Chinese New Year holidays to stay back given the new coronavirus outbreak in the city. Authorities have confirmed more than 400 cases of the virus in China, mostly in the central city of Wuhan where it originated at the end of 2019. So far nine people have died. The virus, which health officials have said can be passed from person to person, has spread to cities including Beijing and Shanghai, with cases also confirmed in Thailand, South Korea, Japan, as well as Taiwan. Foxconn, however, said no health problems had been found so far in its Wuhan-based employees who had come back to Taiwan. Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, said in a statement about its annual new year party in Taipei that it had asked employees from its Wuhan factory who were already back in Taiwan for the holiday to stay at home. The company also stepped up health checks at the party, in a Taipei convention centre, including providing 35,000 facemasks and checking everyone's temperature as they entered the venue. Since the outbreak, Foxconn workers in Wuhan have been wearing facemasks and getting their temperature checked, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer said. Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of Foxconn, advised employees not to visit China over the holiday. "The speed of contagion will be no less than SARS," he said at the party, referring to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak that started in China and killed nearly 800 people globally in 2002-2003. "I advise everyone not to go to the mainland for this coming new year holiday," he added. Management has to decide whether employees need to return to Wuhan to work after new year, Gou said, adding Foxconn will come up with solutions for employees to work remotely. If they stay in Taiwan, then they can make more babies to boost Taiwan's birth rate, he said. Taiwan has the lowest fertility rate in the world, according to a report last year by the World Population Review. Chinese New Year is the biggest holiday in the Chinese-speaking world, when millions of people travel, including Taiwanese business people in China, for family reunions in what is the world's largest annual human migration. Separately, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen wrote on her Facebook page late on Tuesday that people should not visit Wuhan unless they absolutely have to. "I want to call on our nationals please not to visit this region if not necessary," she wrote. Taiwan has stocks of 44 million surgical facemasks and almost two million N95 facemasks, which offer greater protection, and will release them as needed, she added, calling on people not to hoard them. Transport Minister Lin Chia-lung, on his Facebook page, said Taiwanese airlines should consider suspending routes to Wuhan. Taiwan on Tuesday confirmed its first case of infection from the new coronavirus, a woman in her 50s who had returned to the island after working in Wuhan. Source: Reuters/aa https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/wuhan-virus-foxconn-gou-advises-employees-china-holiday-12300034 Seems like the situation in Tiongland is quite bad... badder than declared... humji sinkie govt only diam diam, no give travel advisory. Edited January 22, 2020 by meng.huat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meng.huat Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) @socrates469bc if KMT picked him over korean fish, vegetable english may not be madam president now. He will turn around TW and broker tough deals with mainland, similar to the pragmatic trump. Edited January 22, 2020 by meng.huat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socrates469bc Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, meng.huat said: @socrates469bc if KMT picked him over korean fish, vegetable english may not be madam president now. He will turn around TW and broker tough deals with mainland, similar to the pragmatic trump. even if uncle terry comes in, he will not be able to convince the kumgong taiwanese of the dangers facing the taiwanese economy. 60% of taiwanese too kumgong to believe in vege english's fear mongering instead of focusing on the economy, so no sympathy from me. i m now waiting for more taiwanese mms to come sgp in the next few mths for me to touch touch. ROC is now officially on a death spiral. Edited January 22, 2020 by socrates469bc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaur4man Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 no la they will just keep asking US for help Taiwan Relations Act ftw!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socrates469bc Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 10 minutes ago, aaur4man said: no la they will just keep asking US for help Taiwan Relations Act ftw!!! thats why this ex-defense official dreq thompson was trying very hard to hide his smile during this al jazeera program. u can feel his sinister smile when the presenter asked him whether us will react differently if kmt korean fish had won. obviously the americans feel that vege english will be even a easier puppet to control than the kmt. https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2020/01/stick-taiwan-200112180152797.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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