Business activity in Southeast China’s coastal province of Fujian is being seriously disrupted as local authorities rush to respond to the recent jump in new COVID-19 cases. Sources in the province say the local steel market is in a near state of suspension as highway traffic checks are hampering steel deliveries and activities among steel consumers such as building contractors are slowed or halted.
The fresh outbreak of the virus first emerged in Putian, a major city of 2 million located about 75 kms south of the provincial capital of Fuzhou on September 10.