Shanghai’s Workers Sleep on Floors to Keep Factories Going Amid Covid Lockdown – The Wall Street Journal.


Shanghai’s Workers Sleep on Floors to Keep Factories Going Amid Covid Lockdown https://www.wsj.com/articles/shanghais-workers-sleep-on-floors-to-keep-factories-going-amid-covid-lockdown-11648809322

BEIJING—Shanghai’s Covid-19 lockdown shuttered many factories in the manufacturing hub. Some of its biggest plants have kept humming by adopting closed-loop systems similar to the one China used to host the Winter Olympics.
By Yoko Kubota
The municipal government in the city has allowed some firms to maintain operations in a bubble-like environment with staff working, living and staying within a restricted area.
The strategy is part of frantic efforts by officials and companies to balance disparate goals: curbing the growing outbreak under stringent Covid-control policies, while keeping production going to limit economic damage and global supply-chain fallout.

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