Despite the appearance of only dozens of total COVID cases in the last month, Chinese authorities are taking the appearance of the “Delta” variant of the pandemic disease so seriously that port, rail and road traffic in Guangdong Province, and world trade, are being affected by the public health/lockdown measures. The treatment indicates complete determination to keep the pandemic, not just “under control,” but stopped in China.
The 168 confirmed infections in Guangdong in the past 33 days, almost all in the capital Guangzhou, have been met by quarantines, travel and work restrictions which have tied up more than 150 container vessels in the Yantian Container Port Terminal in Shenzhen. If the congestion is not resolved by the end of June – as it is expected to be — “the impact would be bigger than the Suez Canal incident,” according to one shipping executive quoted by Bloomberg News.
Now additional cases have been found in Dongguan, a manufacturing city also in Guangdong Province. Immediately mass testing is going on there, at factories and after work hours, and some communities have been closed to transit by car.
