WASHINGTON, D.C.: Chinese authorities are struggling to strike a delicate balance between containing a viral outbreak and restarting the world’s second-biggest economy after weeks of paralysis.

As the death toll from the illness now officially known as coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), topped 1,000, global supply chains remain widely disrupted for businesses across the world that have built deep connections to China.

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