See inside Zhengzhou, the Chinese city shut down by the coronavirus where the world's largest iPhone factory is trying to attract workers with $1,000 bonuses

• iPhone manufacturer Foxconn is reopening factories after closing them due to the coronavirus outbreak.
• The company is offering bonuses of 3,000 yuan ($427) to returning workers and 7,000 yuan ($995) to new workers in its Zhengzhou factory.
• Now, workers have to decide how much returning to work is worth to them.
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Zhengzhou, China, is also known as "iPhone City," for the large Foxconn factory that employed as many as 350,000 people and made half of the world's iPhones. This factory city came to a halt on February 3, when Foxconn stopped "almost all" of its production in China, including at the Zhengzhou location, because of the coronavirus outbreak. At one point, Foxconn even used its factories to produce masks and medical clothing.

The death toll of the novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, is now more than 2,700, and the virus has infected more than 80,000 people. On January 30, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared it a global health emergency.

The outbreak originated in Wuhan, China in December, and spread to 37 countries. Experts are now calling it a "mild pandemic," and theorizing that it could become a permanent virus that humans face, akin to the seasonal flu.

On Thursday, Foxconn announced that factories would "cautiously" open again, and the iPhone manufacturer is trying some unusual methods to incentivize workers to return. New employees are being offered 7,000 yuan ($995) to start work at the factory, while returning employees are offered 3,000 yuan ($427). These are surely enticing for workers at the Foxconn factory, where the average monthly salary was between 2,000 and 3,000 yuan.

To get the payout, though, workers will have to deal with the effects of the coronavirus on every aspect of life in Zhengzhou. Take a look inside the city here.