China’s emergency measures to halt the spread of Covid-19 have put this year’s top-level summit with the EU at risk and risk disrupting the global supply chain, the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China has warned, reported the South China Morning Post. Even though Chinese officials said they were working to resume production, foreign businesses’ […]
Category: Health Care
China’s technology titans are deploying health-rating systems to help authorities track the movement of millions of Chinese who are preparing to resume work at factories and other businesses, adding a new tool in the country’s battle to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak, reported the Wall Street Journal. China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported this week that the […]
China is grappling with competing demands to fight the Covid-19 epidemic and get its economy back on track, as businesses struggle to resume operations amid a shortage of workers, disrupted supply chains and sluggish demand, reported Caixin. Industrial indicators illustrate slow resumption of economic activities, although policymakers have called for companies to restart production since last […]
China is to begin importing live chickens from the US as feed shortages due to the coronavirus force poultry farms in the world’s second-biggest economy to start culling millions of young birds, reported the Financial Times. The culling of poultry follows the mass slaughter of pigs in China due to African swine fever over the past […]
The world could face a shortage of antibiotics if the pharmaceutical industry’s supply problems posed by the coronavirus outbreak in China cannot soon be resolved, the head of a European business group in China warned on Tuesday, reported Reuters. EU Chamber of Commerce President Joerg Wuttke told a roundtable in Beijing that the synchronization of supplies […]