Ningbo terminal closure and what if Covid hits more Chinese ports


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Tackling its largest Covid outbreak since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020 China continues to operate a zero-Covid strategy of travel restrictions, locking down cities, and testing entire populations, when cases spring up. In the case of Ningbo Zhoushan Reuters reported that a single employee of the Meidong terminal had tested positive for Covid-19. The employee who was fully vaccinated with the Sinovac vaccine was believed to be asymptomatic. It is not yet known if the infection is the Delta variant strain which Sinovac appears to have limited in efficacy against. “Meidong firm immediately stopped all operations and...