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China’s northern most port city of Dalian is scrambling to control an outbreak of COVID-19 launching a mass testing program after a virus cluster was identified. Operations at the port were briefly interrupted and according to some reports the cold chain portion of the port remains closed. Located on China’s northern Pacific coast, Dalian is one of China’s ten largest ports handling approximately 10 million TEU annually. It is also a primary transshipment port receiving shipments from Asia for distribution into the Chinese mainland. Chinese state media reports that the outbreak was identified on December 15 with an asymptomatic individual...
