Feature: COVID-19 moves world's oldest tea auction online in Sri Lanka

Source: Xinhua| 2020-04-20 16:10:55|Editor: huaxia

SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-TEA AUCTION-ONLINE

File photo taken on Sept. 17, 2019 shows a scene at Colombo Tea Auction in Ceylon Chamber of Commerce building in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The bang of the auctioneer's gavel has been replaced with the click of a button, as Sri Lanka's 126-year old Colombo Tea Auction has moved online amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 16.5 million kg of tea were sold at Sri Lanka's first three e-auctions between April 4-19, allowing the country's tea export industry worth 1.5 billion U.S. dollars to continue during a nationwide curfew imposed to contain the pandemic. (Xinhua/Tang Lu)

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