AliExpress denies suspension due to coronavirus

January 30, the media began to appear messages on the suspension of the delivery of parcels from China. The outbreak was cited as the cause coronavirus. The official representative of AliExpress in Russia Anton Panteleev these rumors already denied - the trading platform works as usual, so all orders will be delivered.

“China is now celebrating New Year, so every year some manufacturers and suppliers may start processing orders later, taking into account the New Year holidays. This is the normal operating mode. "

Anton Panteleev, AliExpress Representative in Russia

The only source of news about the suspension was one case where a seller on AliExpress asked a buyer to cancel an order, citing shipping difficulties due to an outbreak. This case leads UNIAN news agency, which supplemented the news with a screenshot from the correspondence with the seller. However, one refusal clearly does not mean the suspension of delivery of the entire marketplace.

Even if the reason for the refusal was precisely the coronavirus, then this is only the problem of a particular store, the warehouse of which could geographically be in the quarantine zone. Also, this situation could arise due to the extension of the New Year holidays - because of this now stopped some of the factories for the production of smartphones Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi, Vivo, Realme, ZTE and Lenovo. All these brands have already begun to postpone the delivery of equipment to Russia. About it

reported Kommersant.

The Chinese New Year holidays will last until at least February 10th. Further, the situation will depend on the scale of the spread of the virus. On January 31, the number of infected people approached the level of 10 thous. man.