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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has once again encouraged those who are unvaccinated to get their jabs, especially the elderly and people with comorbidities.

The fastest route to production would be a partnership with the maker of one of the existing mRNA vaccines.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Pfizer and Moderna are skeptical, but we found 10 companies in Africa, Asia and South America well-positioned to produce the gold-standard mRNA shots.

Since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan two months ago, the situation in the country has deteriorated and a hunger crisis looms. German aid organizations that could alleviate the suffering are facing massive hurdles.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said that South Africa saw 592 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24-hour recording period and 83 deaths, bringing the death toll to 88,429.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is battling a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the northwestern part of the country. It is the eighth outbreak since 2007, but this time the country seems prepared to handle it.

HUNDREDS of migrants were rescued from a decrepit smuggling boat drifting off the tiny southern Italian island of Lampedusa.Nearly 540 passengers were

ROME (AP) — Italian military vessels on Saturday aided a decrepit fishing boat crammed with 539 migrants that was approaching the tiny southern Italian island of Lampedusa. Alida Serrachieri, a nurse who runs the Doctors Without Borders’ operation on Lampedusa, said the passengers included three women and several unaccompanied minors.

At least 539 migrants which were approaching the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, was rescued by the Italian Coastguard on August 28, Saturday. 

The rescue of 539 migrants from a single decrepit fishing boat on Saturday delivered one of the largest numbers of migrants to the Italian island of Lampedusa in a single day.