Shanghai lockdown will not significantly affect Singapore’s supplies of food and healthcare essentials: MTI

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SINGAPORE — The Covid-19 lockdown in Shanghai is not expected to significantly affect Singapore’s supplies of essential food and healthcare items, said Minister of State for Trade and Industry Low Yen Ling on Monday (May 9).

“Our reliance on China is relatively low and the cities where we import most of our food supplies are not classified as high-risk ones for now,” she said in Parliament, adding that the Government will continue to adopt “a multi-pronged approach of import diversification, local production, and stockpiling” to help minimise supply shocks.

China is facing its most severe Covid-19 outbreak in two years and has responded with full or partial lockdowns in various cities as part of the country’s “zero-Covid” approach. “However, cargo is still able to leave from Shanghai port and where necessary, is being redirected to other ports in China or other transport modes such as air,” she added.

 

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