China's Belt-and-Road projects in Asia paralysed by coronavirus

Nearly a third of the Chinese workers who left for the Lunar New Year holidays have not returned. FMTNews

A worker takes shade next to the bucket of an excavator at the site of Colombo Port City.

China itself has imposed quarantines and travel curbs across the country to contain an epidemic that has killed more than 2,700 and infected around 79,000. “Major construction projects in Sri Lanka that are funded by China mostly employ Chinese construction workers and they have hit a snag,” Nissanka Wijeratne, secretary of the Sri Lanka Chamber of Construction Industries, told AFP.

“At the beginning there was a lot of panic among local workers, but now things have subsided,” Gonaduwage said. Nearly two-thirds of them had returned to China during the Lunar New Year in January, said project manager Abdul Moula.

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