therapeutics, bringing another new challenge. the company says months long delays for millions of rolls of this foil from overseas. how critical is this as part of the prescription drug? no this, no drugs. without this, you can t give out drugs in a ziploc bag. reporter: vanessa yurkevich, cnn, clifton, new jersey. thank you for that report. let s dig deeper now on the supply chain crisis with ocean supply chain strategist john monroe. john, we appreciate you sharing part of your sunday morning with us. you say that this situation developing in china right now, that vanessa described with covid lockdowns, that s a recipe for disaster. help us understand why. well, imagine that you re in china today and you work for a factory, but can t get to the factory. or you re a truck driver and you can t deliver the product to the port. a city like shanghai has 25
million people, but most important thing there is the largest port in the world. so a lot of the exports come out of shanghai, and they just can t get there. and the people that are locked down and the trucks and factories trying to deliver product, they can t get product delivered. and ultimately what does this mean for consumers? well, it is just another disruption. it is backing things up. so you have your bookings which is what factories have to make to get on board a ship, they re down about 40%. and for consumers, it means there is going to product is not going to be available in the store, whether a target store, supermarket, imagine a product that really is not made in china today or not made in asia. it is hard to find something that doesn t have raw materials or final product coming out of that region. give us an idea of what kind of products you re talking about. do they just run the gamut? is it just about anything you
during a transitional period. it comes after the saudi-led coalition and the iran-aligned houthi movement announced a two month truce last week, the first since 2016. most the world has reported a decline in covid cases. the city of shanghai is going in the opposite direction. coming up, we will look at what health officials are doing to stop it.
the food supply with more and more families saying that they re finding it increasingly difficult to source food or order groceries online, which is remarkable for a city like shanghai, a modern metropolis that is very tech savvy. this was shared yesterday by shanghai-based analyst and a mother. in her tweet, she shares a photograph of what she was able to receive in terms of fresh groceries. she said, we managed to get some fresh food delivered, not exactly on our wish list, but we ll take it. is eating only jam to save bread for your children nutritionally sound. authorities insisted shanghai would never enter a citywide lockdown. a citywide lockdown is under way with no end in sight as cases continue to rise. it s testing the patience of residents in shanghai, including this woman. listen to this. we re using, you know, 2020 tools for a 2022 virus.