Millions of Chinese businesses facing collapse because of the shutdowns. FMTNews Chins
Factory workers are separated by partitions as a precaution against infection as they take their lunch break. Central and local governments are loosening the criteria for factories to resume operations as they walk a tightrope between containing a virus that has killed more than 2,400 people and preventing a slump in the world’s second-largest economy.
After weeks of empty streets and shuttered shops, signs of life are emerging along the manufacturing belt in the country’s coastal regions. The push to get production rolling again risks a renewed spread of the virus, about which much is still not yet known. Official statistics showed that around 70% of plants in provinces such as Shandong, Zhejiang and Jiangsu have now restarted, though most are running below capacity with as many as half their workers still missing.
Healthy workers with a temperature lower than 37.3°C from outside Hubei and other badly affected regions can work immediately after they return to Dongguan. Since the Lunar New Year holiday began in late January, only about 20% as many trips have been taken each day compared to the previous year, meaning millions of people still haven’t traveled back to the cities where they work and live.
Even if factories can get all their employees back to work, restrictions on work practices may mean that they aren’t able to resume full employment anyway.
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