Supply chain pinch reaches farmers, school cafeterias - July 26, 2021

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio called on the city’s private businesses to require employee vaccinations and signaled that he would introduce similar mandates for city employees. More hospital systems across the U.S. are requiring a coronavirus vaccine, with as many as one in four healthcare employees still unvaccinated against the virus. Nashville’s Largest Private Employer Decides To Require COVID Vaccinations, Starting With Leaders - WPLN Many Health Care Workers Don’t Trust Vaccine, Nationally And In Iowa - Iowa Public Radio Rick Dennison out as Minnesota Vikings assistant after refusing COVID-19 vaccine, sources say - ESPN The global supply chain has reached a “perilous moment” as the spread of the delta variant compounds challenges posed by natural disasters and cyber-attacks. AstraZeneca will consider importing its coronavirus vaccines to hard-hit Southeast Asia, while the supply strain in the U.S. has stretched to school cafeterias and inhibited agricultural exports. Europe’s Recovery Threatened by Supply-Chain, Inflation Squeeze - Bloomberg Shoe, backpack shortages could be possible for back-to-school shopping - USA Today More countries are again announcing restrictions between borders, including tougher quarantine requirements for some travelers to Germany and the end of the travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand. French lawmakers advanced a law requiring a “Covid pass” to enter bars, restaurants and touristic sites that proves the visitor is either fully vaccinated, recently recovered from an infection, or has produced a negative virus test. With $4 billion in losses, Heathrow tells UK: open up travel - Reuters Northern Ireland Covid travel passport App to be launched soon - Belfast Telegraph @CBSNews: Hundreds of people protested in Paris on Saturday against the introduction of a health pass and against compulsory vaccinations for health workers as the government seeks to curb a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections in France. Most U.S. teenagers headed back to school in the c