Shipping delays in China and beyond lead to medicine supply woes

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Shipping delays in China and beyond lead to medicine supply woes

Jonathan Chilton-Towle

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Yangshan Port, Shanghai, in pre-COVID times [Image: Marqueed at English Wikipedia CC by SA 3.0]

Prescription drugs as well as common over-the-counter products have been hit by COVID-related supply issues on the other side of the world, Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Global shipping delays, especially in China, are making it even more difficult to get medicines into New Zealand. Graeme Jarvis, chief executive of