Super Typhoon Bavi is now tracking toward Taiwan and eastern China, with around 630 pharmaceutical manufacturing sites in its projected path and more than 300 of them in Zhejiang, one of the world’s densest API-producing provinces, according to QYOBO live disaster tracking.
A Category 5 storm heading for the API heartland
Bavi, known in the Philippines as Inday, peaked as a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon with sustained winds near 287 km/h (180 mph), passing close to Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands on July 6 — the strongest tropical cyclone on record to hit U.S. territory. As of July 8 it held Category 4 strength at 250 km/h (155 mph), moving west across the Philippine Sea.
Forecasters expect Bavi to pass near Taiwan around July 11 before making landfall on China’s eastern coast around July 12 and dissipating west of Shanghai. The system is unusually large, roughly 1,000 km across, with parts of Taiwan forecast to receive more than a meter of rain.
630 sites in the path, 300 in a single province
QYOBO’s platform flags 631 pharmaceutical manufacturing sites within the storm’s projected footprint, at its highest alert level (Red, 3/3). Roughly 630 sit in China and Taiwan, with more than 300 concentrated in Zhejiang province alone. Taiwan adds around 59 contract manufacturing sites, most carrying U.S. or EMA approvals.
Zhejiang is one of the world’s primary sources of active pharmaceutical ingredients. The Taizhou and Linhai districts form the province’s export-oriented core, producing APIs, intermediates, and finished dosage forms for global markets. Many of these facilities routinely clear FDA, EDQM, and WHO inspections and supply Western markets, which makes disruption there a global rather than a local problem.
About the data
QYOBO’s “potentially affected sites” count reflects manufacturing sites within the modeled path of Tropical Cyclone Bavi-26 for the July 1–6 event window, scored at its highest alert level. The forecast track now extends to a Taiwan and eastern-China landfall around July 11–12, so the exposure window remains open and the site count may change. Storm metrics are drawn from JTWC and JMA advisories.
Source: QYOBO platform, live disaster tracking, as of July 8, 2026. Storm data: JTWC / JMA.
