The coronavirus wake-up call
The coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak is now dominating daily headlines from China to Europe. There is also increasing talk that the long-underestimated and downplayed epidemic, which likely originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, is having a negative impact on the global economy. Although we may all be suffering from information overload about this terrible news by now, the impact of the virus on the solar industry is, unfortunately, a sad reality, and the full extent of its devastation is just beginning to reveal itself.
The Chinese authorities have quarantined entire cities, restricted delivery traffic between special economic zones and ports, and imposed house quarantine rules on their own people in an attempt to control the rapid spread of the coronavirus. But the consequence is that production workers have been sent on forced leave or have not been able to …
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