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According to the head of the German Development Agency GIZ, Germany has managed to bring around 24,000 people out of Afghanistan in the last few months.

Every year, over 100,000 square kilometers of good soil is lost worldwide. The ground is concreted over, treated with chemicals, and farmed carelessly. Yet it is the very basis of life.

A high-level German delegation from BMZ, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Germany hailed the One Window Center of Ehsaas in Islamabad.

MRNA vaccines are now in the limelight as a key tool for tackling COVID-19, but the technology was originally developed for other diseases, such as cancer, that researchers are now hoping to treat

Future COVID-19 vaccines might not have to be kept so cold A need for ultra-cold storage limits vaccine availability, but promising new solutions are on the horizon. ByMaya Wei-Haas Email The action was innocent: While cleaning the Veterans Affairs hospital in Boston this past January, a contractor knocked a loose freezer plug from its socket. This simple mistake resulted in the loss of nearly 2,000 doses of Modernas COVID-19 vaccine that had been chilling inside the unplugged appliance. While ...

The U.S.-China riff grows over Covid Presented by Editor’s Note: POLITICO Pulse is a free version of POLITICO Pro Health Cares morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 6 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day’s biggest stories. as questions mount about global vaccination efforts. — Former HHS official Brian Harrison’s run for a Texas House seat has rekindled old feuds between some Trump...

COVID mask scandal: Pressure rises on German lawmaker The corruption scandal around conservative lawmaker Georg Nüsslein is "infuriating," center-left MP Dirk Wiese has told DW. Nüsslein was reportedly bribed by a face mask producer. Georg Nüsslein has protested his innocence The lawmaker also temporarily stepped down from his position as deputy leader of the ruling conservative bloc in the Bundestag. Nüssleins case quite appalling Speaking to DW, Bundestag deputy Dirk Wiese said he was su...

DGAP-News: CureVac / Key word: Financing/Corporate Action CureVac Announces Pricing of USD450 million Follow-on Public Offering of Common Shares 2021-01-28 / 07:00 The issuer is solely responsible...

Press release content from Accesswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. CureVac Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Shares January 26, 2021 GMT TÜBINGEN, GERMANY and BOSTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / January 25, 2021 / CureVac N.V. (NASDAQ:CVAC) (“CureVac” or the “Company”), a global biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of transformative medicines based on messenger ribonucleic acid (“mRNA”), announced today that it intends to offer and sell in an un...

Source: © Ander Gillnea/AFP/Getty Images The Covid-19 vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer must be stored at -70°C until the day it is used, when it can be stored in a normal fridge As the world celebrates the arrival of vaccines to protect against Covid-19, the logistics of distributing them is under the spotlight as never before. It’s a delicate balancing act – both heat and excessive cold damage vaccines. Keeping vaccines at just the right temperature to ensure they’re effective...