December shipments from Foxconn’s Zhengzhou iPhone plant in China were 90 per cent of the firm’s initial plans, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said, as the facility strives to recover from its Covid-induced woes.

Foxconn declined to comment.

The world’s largest iPhone manufacturing facility was hit late last year by a Covid-19 outbreak that prompted worker departures and unrest as well as production disruptions.