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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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Fukutaro Yamashita and Daisuke Kawase / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers

Factories in China feel brunt of rising COVID infections

A person is brought into a fever outpatient clinic at a hospital in Beijing on Thursday. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

BEIJING / SHENYANG -- The end of Chi- na's zero-COVID measures is likely to dampen its economy for some time, as the abrupt policy change has unleashed a rapid spread of infections, with an increasing number of factories consequently forced to slow down.

Major chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp. began a full shutdown of its main plant in Beijing on Friday night after multiple employees were infected with the novel coronavirus.

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