Copper price surges due to global shortage
Chile, the world’s largest exporter of metal essential in electronic products and manufacturing, faces drastic drop in production due to COVID-19.
The price of copper is shooting up due to a global shortage of the crucial metal.
Production has been hit hard as coronavirus cases continue to rise among mine workers in Chile. The country is the world’s largest exporter of the metal which is essential in almost all electronic products and manufacturing.
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports from Santiago.
Published On 1 Jul 2020