EXPORT meat traders are describing the China market as being “as sick as it has ever been in ten years” this week, as China battles the latest wave of COVID sickness across the country.
China’s severe ‘Zero COVID’ policy means large metropolitan centres and whole provinces are again in lockdown, or under severe restrictions.
Latest to join the list is the giant southern manufacturing city of Guangzhou, which has introduced partial lockdown anti-pandemic measures. Others currently hard-hit include Zhengzhou, Chongqing and Beijing. Cases in Beijing have hit their highest…