Also registering a post-sars recovery - albeit partial - are the movements of trade missions between Far Eastern countries and SA, according to the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce & Industry (JCCI). “At the beginning of the outbreak,” said a chamber spokeswoman, “we were receiving straight cancellations of a number of incoming trade missions. And a major Chinese trade fair was cancelled for the first time ever. “We also used to have missions from Beijing almost every month, but we haven’t seen hide nor hair of one of them since the start of the epidemic. “But now we are being informed of “temporary” postponements and they are now putting dates (mostly between November and the beginning of next year) for when these postponed missions will be coming in to SA.”
