[unable to retrieve full-text content]China’s vehicle industry took a deep dive last month, as Shanghai went into a citywide lockdown, which idled car plants from General Motors to Tesla and Volkswagen.
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Coronavirus: Shanghai keeps millions under lockdown, even as community infections remain at zero amid daily swings in new Covid-19 cases
1 day ago[unable to retrieve full-text content]Shanghai’s authorities have set June 1 as the date for officially lifting the city’s two-month long lockdown, aiming to restore China’s commercial and financial hub to normality by the end of the month.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai to expand app tracking to guard against Covid-19 resurgence, as city marks third day without community spread
2 days ago[unable to retrieve full-text content]As the city records a third day without community infections, the government announces that schools, parks, offices and residential compounds will require health-app scans when lockdown easing begins.
Read More »Shanghai lockdown: city records rise in new Covid cases for second day but community infections remain at zero
4 days ago[unable to retrieve full-text content]No cases were discovered in low-risk unguarded zones, indicating that the mainland’s commercial and financial capital is able to limit infections to only people in quarantine.
Read More »Shanghai lockdown: city finds three new community infections even as death toll falls to zero, as path to reopening is lined with risks
5 days ago[unable to retrieve full-text content]Faced with the mixed results, Shanghai’s health authorities are not letting up, even if more manufacturers and public services have been allowed to resume operations.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai adds Covid-19 test data to transit passes as city prepares for reopening after seven weeks of lockdown
6 days ago[unable to retrieve full-text content]The tentative steps in keeping Covid-19 at bay boosted the confidence of Shanghai’s authorities, as they prepared to allow 273 bus routes and four of the 19 subway lines to reopen on Sunday.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai Covid cases remain at zero outside quarantine zones for fourth day, putting city on path towards normalcy
7 days ago[unable to retrieve full-text content]The fourth straight day without new Covid-19 infections in low-risk, unguarded zones keeps the mainland’s commercial and financial hub on track for a phased easing of restrictions.
Read More »Shanghai lockdown: city reaches milestone as it keeps community infections at zero for the third day, putting city en route to June’s reopening
8 days ago[unable to retrieve full-text content]Societal zero-Covid is a watershed moment in Shanghai’s anti-pandemic work, after which the city will ease the draconian virus control measures that have upended daily lives and strained global supply chains.
Read More »Shanghai lockdown: city counts down towards June 1 end of controls as daily Covid-19 cases dip below 1,000 for the first time since late March
9 days ago[unable to retrieve full-text content]The end is in sight for one of the largest mass population lockdowns ever undertaken in China, after stop works and standstill orders upended daily lives and strained global supply chains close to breaking point.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai aims to bring outbreak under control by May 20, even as cases jump for first time in 19 days
12 days ago[unable to retrieve full-text content]The city is aiming to achieve its ‘societal zero-Covid’ target by May 20, Wu Qing, the city’s executive vice-mayor, told a press briefing on Friday morning.
Read More »Shanghai and Jilin lockdowns: China’s carmakers lost 1 million vehicles in production last month amid strict Covid-19 containment measures
12 days ago[unable to retrieve full-text content]China’s automobiles industry lost 1 million vehicles in production last month amid severe lockdown measures introduced to contain outbreaks of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of Covid-19.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai posts falling Covid-19 infections, symptomatic cases and death toll as city takes another tentative step towards recovery
13 days ago[unable to retrieve full-text content]The declining infection numbers led to renewed calls by residents and businesses for Shanghai’s authorities to relax some of its lockdown and standstill orders.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai’s daily Covid-19 infections halve to below 1,500 cases, raising hopes that the end may be in sight for city’s lockdown
14 days ago[unable to retrieve full-text content]Infections of the highly transmissible Omicron variant had been in steady decline in Shanghai since April 23, holding below 5,000 cases for the past eight days.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai reports 58 new cases in unguarded, low-risk zones in setback for city’s ‘societal zero-Covid’ push
23 days ago[unable to retrieve full-text content]Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan instructed local officials to double down on lockdown controls to identify and quarantine every single case even though the overall outbreak is showing signs of abating.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai’s Covid-19 cases drop for fourth day amid plans to ease lockdown
28 days ago[unable to retrieve full-text content]While Shanghai recorded its lowest daily number of new cases since April 5, Beijing added a record number of new infections amid heightened concerns that a severe outbreak is developing.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai extends standstill order to April 26, doubling down on city’s ‘societal zero-Covid’ pursuit to track every Omicron case
April 22, 2022[unable to retrieve full-text content]The standstill order was extended as infections were spreading in unguarded areas with the movements of medical officers and volunteers. By Thursday, a total 250 cases were detected at the unguarded zones.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai’s new Covid-19 cases fall to 15-day low, as focus shifts to curbing spillovers
April 21, 2022[unable to retrieve full-text content]The rising number of symptomatic patients kept health authorities on their toes, prompting Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan to warn the city to double down on efforts to achieve societal zero-Covid at the highest-risk areas.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai’s daily new Covid-19 cases dip below 20,000 for the first time in 13 days as weeklong standstill order ends
April 20, 2022[unable to retrieve full-text content]Shanghai has been trying to resume production at 666 key manufacturers, including Tesla and the country’s largest chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp oration (SMIC).
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai factories amble towards reopening as city’s standstill order nears its end amid declining daily Covid-19 cases
April 19, 2022[unable to retrieve full-text content]As many as 390,000 residents in Shanghai – out of a total population of 25 million -have been infected by the highly transmissible Omicron variant since March 1, with 27,200 showing symptoms.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai reports first Covid-19 deaths just as city tiptoes towards business restarts on declining new cases
April 18, 2022[unable to retrieve full-text content]Local authorities are embarking on a plan to gradually restore production and business activity in China’s commercial centre after more than two weeks of lockdown
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai’s vehicle assemblies sit idle as ‘China’s Motown’ is paralysed by a citywide lockdown to curb the Covid-19’s spread
April 15, 2022[unable to retrieve full-text content]Shanghai’s local authorities locked the entire city down on April 5, and confined most of the city’s 25 million residents – except emergency workers and medical staff – to their homes to contain a Covid-19 outbreak.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai finds a record 3,200 cases with Covid-19 symptoms as mass tests uncover Omicron lurking in families in cloistered homes
April 15, 2022[unable to retrieve full-text content]Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan instructed local authorities on Thursday to close any “loopholes,” after the Chinese president doubled down on his government’s pursuit of a dynamic zero-Covid goal.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai’s symptomatic cases jump to a record 2,573, showing why Xi is doubling down on his zero-tolerance battle with Covid-19
April 14, 2022[unable to retrieve full-text content]“Virus control measures must be strictly implemented” in strict adherence to science, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday, adding that the antivirus campaign must minimise economic and social impact.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai backs away from easing lockdowns in ‘low-risk’ areas, even as Covid-19 cases end 10-day record streak
April 12, 2022[unable to retrieve full-text content]Authorities are taking no chances with the highly transmissible Omicron variant, ordering another round of testing – at least the seventh time in as many days – in the highest “lockdown zones.”
Read More »Covid-19: Airports, harbours, highways must remain open to protect transport, logistics chain amid restrictions, Beijing tells local governments
April 11, 2022[unable to retrieve full-text content]Beijing has ordered all provincial-level governments to keep airports, harbours and main roads open so that transport and logistics links can be maintained amid strict anti-pandemic controls.
Read More »Coronavirus: Shanghai adds 19,982 Covid-19 cases, setting a daily record for the sixth day
April 7, 2022[unable to retrieve full-text content]Shanghai has reported 114,000 cases since the latest wave of outbreaks started on March 1, raking up more cases in a month than the previous two years combined.
Read More »Shanghai Stock Exchange pulls out all the stops to keep trading going as city government locks down Pudong area to contain Covid-19
March 28, 2022[unable to retrieve full-text content]Shanghai’s stock exchange is going to extraordinary lengths to keep the bigger half of the world’s second-largest capital market ticking, locking technicians, compliance officers and back-office clerks in the building, as China’s premier commercial city goes into a rolling lockdown to contain a resurgent outbreak of Covid-19. Hundreds of staff at the bourse are working in a “closed loop”, essentially living in the office, to ensure trading goes on as normal after the whole of Pudong New Area…
Read More »Coronavirus China: Tesla shuts down Gigafactory 3 for two days for Shanghai to mass test workers to push back against Covid-19 relapse
March 16, 2022[unable to retrieve full-text content]Tesla will suspend all operations at its Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai for two days to allow health authorities to test every employee for the Omicron variant as the Covid-19 outbreak threatens to flare up again in China’s commercial hub.Production of Tesla’s Model 3 electric sedans and Model Y sports-utility vehicles (SUVs) will be halted on Wednesday and Thursday while the factory is sealed off, according to two people familiar with the arrangement. Tesla’s spokespeople did not respond to…
Read More »Year of the Tiger: Tesla’s lead in China’s EV market is whittled away by NIO, Xpeng, Li Auto and other home-grown brands
February 6, 2022[unable to retrieve full-text content]Tesla’s dominance in the world’s largest electric car market may come increasingly under pressure in the Year of the Tiger, as China’s home-grown brands develop new models to pick up the slack left by Elon Musk’s company.To get there, NIO, Xpeng Motors and Li Auto – the three most aggressive local EV start-ups – will have to spend heavily to assemble and launch smart, all-electric vehicles amid the lingering shortage of semiconductor chips that may leave a 20 per cent shortfall in this year’s…
Read More »Chinese luxury spending unlikely to bounce back to pre-coronavirus levels any time soon, Bain says
February 3, 2022[unable to retrieve full-text content]Mainland Chinese consumers’ spending on luxury items is unlikely to recover to pre-Covid-19 levels any time soon, owing to limited international travel and a bearish view on the economy, global consultancy Bain and Company said.“We expect Chinese consumers’ personal luxury purchases to recover to pre-Covid levels between the end of 2022 and the first half of 2023,” said Xing Weiwei, a partner at Bain. “This will be supported by continuous repatriation of spending and boosted by the gradual…
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