{"id":33154,"date":"2021-06-16T14:53:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T05:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/16\/covid-outbreaks-in-chinese-ports-could-cause-global-goods-shortages"},"modified":"2021-06-16T14:53:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T05:53:44","slug":"covid-outbreaks-in-chinese-ports-could-cause-global-goods-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33154","title":{"rendered":"Covid outbreaks in Chinese ports could cause global goods shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Combination of rise in demand for products as some countries reopen and lockdowns in some port cities mean prices could climb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>An outbreak of Covid-19 in southern China has combined with the rapid reopening of the world economy and a shortage of shipping containers to cause a surge in transport costs that could fuel inflation and cause shortages of goods across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>China reported 21 new coronavirus cases in the mainland on Wednesday with 15 of them in the vital industrial province of Guangdong where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/01\/china-locks-down-part-of-guangzhou-amid-outbreak-of-indian-covid-variant\">restrictions have been in place for several weeks<\/a> to contain an outbreak linked to the Delta variant first detected in India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/16\/covid-outbreaks-in-chinese-ports-could-cause-global-goods-shortages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combination of rise in demand for products as some countries reopen and lockdowns in some port cities mean prices could climbAn outbreak of Covid-19 in southern China has combined with the rapid reopening of the world economy and a shortage of shipping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,1066,558,914,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-global-economy","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33155,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33154\/revisions\/33155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}