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World Service,3 mins
Are global supply chains coping with China closing factories over coronavirus?
World Business ReportAvailable for over a year
Car companies and technology manufacturers around the world are at risk of suffering a shortage of supplies, if Chinese factories remain closed because of the outbreak. Brian Alster, a specialist in risk at Dun and Bradstreet in New York, tells the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Russell Padmore that the operations of tens of thousands of companies may be disrupted. (Picture: A Cosco container ship in China. Credit: Visual China Group.)
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