SHANGHAI -- Nearly 100 Chinese businesses have been certified to invoke force majeure exemptions from contractual duties by a government trade council that deems the coronavirus outbreak as a qualifying disaster.
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A worker disinfects a factory in Lianyungang, China, that remained shut down due to the coronavirus outbreak. © Reuters
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