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Copper producer China Daye Non-ferrous Metals Mining, which was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic earlier this year, has raised its production target for the year after posting a net loss during the first half. Located near the initial coronavirus epicentre of Wuhan, the company is expected to ensure 510,000t of copper cathode production this year, up from the 505,000t annual target that was set in March this year. The company was quoted by Reuters as saying in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange: “We will increase daily as well as monthly production to recover the losses [that] resulted from the epidemic.”
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