THURSDAY 5 MARCH 2020The virus is spreading to our
global supply chains
Some ports are already reporting slowing activity due to Covid-19 (Getty)
JAMES MOORE
CHIEF BUSINESS COMMENTATOR
The global supply chain is something few people not directly involved in it pay much attention to unless
and until they have to. Like now. We don’t yet know how bad the Covid-19 outbreak will get and whether
the dire worst-case scenario predictions – one in five British workers going off sick and suchlike – will be
realised.
However, the aforementioned supply chain is one area where it is having a very real and quantifiable impact
right now, largely as a result of efforts to halt or at least slow down the spread of the virus. China is the