The Omicron variant could add pressure to a chronic shortage of microchips used in car manufacturing, a senior car industry executive has said.

Nissan chief Makoto Uchida told the BBC it was too early to say when normal deliveries, and therefore finished cars, would resume.

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“I can’t give you a date. This new variant could add pressure to that, so how well we react is going to be crucial,” he told the BBC.

“We have a semiconductor shortage as an industry and how we recover from that is critical,” Uchida told the BBC.

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