{"id":28729,"date":"2022-01-07T16:06:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T13:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/shenzhen-on-alert-as-more-covid-19-cases-crop-up\/28729\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T16:06:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T13:06:19","slug":"shenzhen-on-alert-as-more-covid-19-cases-crop-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/shenzhen-on-alert-as-more-covid-19-cases-crop-up\/28729\/","title":{"rendered":"Shenzhen on alert as more Covid-19 cases crop up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>China\u2019s whac-a-mole approach to containing Covid-19 is seeing restrictions rushed in at many more important hubs across the country as the nation struggles to contain more contagious variants spreading.<\/p>\n<p>Two Covid-19 cases in Shenzhen have seen local authorities usher in travel bans making it difficult to leave the city with more mass testing underway today in the city\u2019s Longgang district. Trucker availability at the key southern Chinese box port is likely to be hit by this latest outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of workers at iPhone maker Foxconn\u2019s Zhengzhou facilities and Huawei\u2019s research campus in Dongguan are being tested as more Covid-19 cases crop up.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s strict zero-Covid policy has curbed local outbreaks with mass testing, snap lockdowns, vigilant surveillance and extensive quarantines. However, new variants such as omicron <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/beijings-unwavering-zero-covid-policy-rattles-supply-chains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have seen outbreaks intensify<\/a><\/span> since the autumn.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Ningbo, home to the world\u2019s largest port, has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/ningbo-lockdown-measures-tightened\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">had three partial lockdowns<\/a><\/span> in the space of six months.<\/p>\n<p>Ship operations have become very difficult in China, the world\u2019s most important merchant shipping destination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina\u2019s zero-tolerance policy towards COVID-19 has turned out to be highly stressful for many ships\u2019 crews, and challenging and costly for the ship operators. Ships arriving at Chinese ports are currently faced with strict epidemic control measures,\u201d an alert from P&amp;I club Gard warned yesterday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\"> <script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });<\/script> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\">\n<span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/coronavirus\/\" rel=\"tag\">Coronavirus<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s whac-a-mole approach to containing Covid-19 is seeing restrictions rushed in at many more important hubs across the country as the nation struggles to contain more contagious variants spreading. Two Covid-19 cases in Shenzhen have seen local authorities usher in travel bans making it difficult to leave the city with more mass testing underway today &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-port-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/28730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}