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Covid Keeps Workers in Factories, Distorting China Spending Bloomberg 2/10/2021 (Bloomberg) For the first time in her life, Zhang Sufang won’t be going home for the Lunar New Year. Instead the 37-year-old production supervisor is exchanging gifts with her parents and 16-year-old son by post as fears of reigniting the pandemic in China disrupt the nation’s biggest holiday. “When I received boxes from home, I burst into tears,” said Zhang, who works at Fujian Strait Textile Technology Co., a yarn-maker in eastern China. China may have got its control of Covid down to a handful of new cases per day, but quarantines and travel curbs to keep it that way have forced millions of factory workers to give up the idea of a traditional family gathering. That will distort what is traditionally an annual catalyst for spending, a setback for a government trying to boost the role of consumption in the economy. ....