Ford Shuts Down, Cuts Production At 8 Plants Amid Chip Shortage By Dawn Geske
on May 20 2021 9:56 PM The fifth generation of the Ford family are due to take their place on the automaker s board of directors GETTY / SCOTT OLSON
The chip shortage continues to bear down on the auto industry, with more temporary plant shutdowns affecting Ford (F).
Ford said in an internal memo obtained by CNBC that it will temporarily pause or cut production at eight of its North American plants for a period of time through June due to the chip shortage.
The chip shortage has been impacting the auto industry due to the pandemic, which shifted the product toward tech devices when the automotive sector was at a standstill, and consumers were clamoring for computers and home devices to facilitate remote work.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday May 19 2021
Mr Samuel Oburu (left), the Kurobudi Primary School head teacher, shows journalists one of the grass-thatched houses that parents constructed for staff of the school on Monday. PHOTO | JOSEPH OMOLLO
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Residents of Mulanda Sub-county in Tororo District have embarked on constructing grass-thatched houses for teachers’ accommodation at various government-aided primary schools in a bid to limit absenteeism.
The residents say lack of staff accommodation has been one of the factors, alongside shortage of staff, lack of classrooms and low pay, that has for long affected academic performance in most government-aided schools in the district.
Mr Alfred Ofumbi, the chairperson of Parents-Teacher Association (PTA) at Kurobudi Primary School, said on Monday that they came up with the initiative two years ago after realising that most of the teachers travel long distances to the school and as result, they arrive late and leave early.
Centre asks States to publicise Covid vaccine availability data in advance
May 19, 2021
This will help prevent overcrowding at vaccination centres
The Centre on Wednesday urged the States to make public district-wise, vaccination site-wise plan for administering Covid vaccines and use these calendars to prevent overcrowding at vaccination centres.
An official statement put out by the Health Ministry said both government and private vaccination centres should make these calendars available on CoWIN platform in advance and asked the States and Union Territories to direct concerned officials to make such plans till June 15. At the same time, the States and private vaccination centres should desist from publishing single-day vaccine calendars, it said.
Taiwan, gripped by heatwave and drought, struck by power cuts for second time in a week
Phased blackouts first hit the island, which major chip makers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing call home, on Thursday
Those cuts followed an outage at a plant in the southern city of Kaohsiung, worrying investors amid a global chip shortage