World Coronavirus Dispatch: US infections drop to near one-year low

Global chip shortage to drag on unless Taiwan gets vaccines, Half of UK's children playing less outdoors, and other pandemic-related news across the globe

World’s Supply of chips is in danger unless Taiwan gets vaccines

Taiwan is paying the price for the lack of vaccines, with a surge in cases that threatens to trigger a lockdown. Having successfully sidestepped the first Covid wave, the government now faces a health emergency—only about 1 per cent of its population has been vaccinated so far—with the potential to disrupt the chip industry that dominates the local economy, and which is critical to an already-squeezed global supply. Read here

Let's look at the global statistics

Global infections: 167,178,756

Global deaths: 3,463,891

Nations with most cases: US (33,117,684), India (26,752,447), Brazil