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A COVID outbreak in Taiwan has tech manufacturers nervous about losing workers to the virus.

In some electronics groups, including a Foxconn subsidiary in the Japanese electronics brand,

a Canon are being accused of barring workers from leaving their dormitories,

except to go to work. And many of those workers are migrants.

A greater China correspondent, Katherine Hilla, broke this story.

I started reaching out to workers and worker groups.

And this served the People Association, which is a labor group that has supported migrant workers

for a long time. They just did a survey and they discovered that according to the hundreds of migrant

workers, they asked 60% of those migrant workers reported that they are now under lockdown orders.

Whereas before the recent outbreak in Taiwan, that percentage had been only 30%.

Well, only sounds a bit ironic because even 30% is of course far too much.

Wow, yeah, 30% even before the lockdown. That really speaks to the mistreatment of migrant workers

that was happening even before the COVID outbreak. Have you talked to any of these workers yourself,

Katherine? Yes, I have. Most of these workers are very anxious not to be quoted as all even anonymously

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