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Ukrainian governor: Russian strikes kill at least 6 in Lviv
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Ukrainian governor: Russian strikes kill at least 6 in Lviv
Meanwhile, Shanghai authorities reported the first COVID-19 deaths in the latest outbreak in China’s most populous and wealthiest city.
China’s economic growth edged up to a still-weak 4.8% over a year earlier in the first three months of 2022 as industrial cities shut down to fight coronavirus outbreaks, threatening to disrupt global trade and manufacturing. Growth in the world’s second-largest economy crept up from the previous quarter’s 4% following a slump triggered by tighter…
Factories have suspended production. Truckers are stuck on highways. Containers are piling up at ports. Shipping vessels have ...
China’s race to stop the spread of COVID-19 is clogging highways and ports, stranding workers and shutting countless factories — disruptions that are rippling through global supply chains for goods ranging from electric vehicles to iPhones. While some factory owners try to tough it out through “closed loop” management that keeps workers isolated inside, some said that is becoming harder to sustain given the extent of local COVID-19 curbs aimed at heading off the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, complicating efforts to procure materials or ship products. Foxconn Interconnect Technology â€...