Tech supply chains brace for impact as China shifts from zero-COVID to rampant COVID
One of COVID-19's many side effects was to disrupt the technology industry's supply chains – especially when they linked to China.
Beijing's policy not to tolerate even small numbers of infections – and the resulting strict lockdowns and movement restrictions – meant its factories and transport infrastructure often operated well below capacity from 2020 to 2022. But in recent weeks China has stopped ordering shutdowns. Citizens who catch COVID-19 are required to self-isolate, but cities will stay open even as infection spreads.According to Hong Kong University professor of epidemiology Ben Cowling, the Chinese population is skipping straight from containment to a"return to normal" without implementing interim mitigation measures.
Cowling believes that jump may create chaos.
of infections close to this only in February 2022 – a little over two years after the first case was reported on American soil.
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