China’s Factories to the World Brace for Tsunami of Covid Cases
- Plants are hoarding medical supplies as workers sleep on site
- History shows Covid can’t be stopped, chamber of commerce says
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From locking in workers to hoarding medicines, beds and disinfectant, China’s factories are going to great lengths to keep the machines running — and the global supply chain intact — as an onslaught of Covid cases looms.
The world’s second-biggest economy is rapidly dismantling restrictions that largely kept the virus at bay for almost three years. The resulting eruption in infections is set to be a key test for a vast network of factories that account for almost one-third of the world’s manufacturing output. Those plants are now taking extraordinary steps to ward off infections.