Covid-19: PAHO says some LatAm countries not meeting vaccination targets despite proper supply

WASHINGTON, April 23 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported that over two-thirds of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean is already vaccinated against COVID-19, although certain countries have yet to reach even half of their population. “COVID-19 vaccines work and are very safe,” PAHO Director…

Ghana: President commissions USD35 miliion pharmaceutical plant

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo commissioning the plant ACCRA, April 23 (NNN-GNA) — Ghana President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Friday commissioned a 35 million dollar pharmaceutical manufacturing plant, as part of wider efforts to boost the local manufacture of serum and vaccines.The plant, situated at Larkpleku, in the Prampram district…

Scientists scour ‘Mexico’s Galapagos’ for quake, volcano clues

 MEXICO CITY, April 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Could a volcanic eruption off Mexico’s coast unleash a tsunami like the one that devastated Tonga? What really causes tectonic plates to shift and trigger earthquakes? Scientists visited a remote archipelago in search of answers.   Located in the Pacific Ocean several hundred kilometers…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Russian-owned Amsterdam Trade Bank collapses

THE HAGUE, April 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Dutch court on Friday declared the Russia-owned, Dutch-registered Amsterdam Trade Bank bankrupt after it was caught up in Ukraine-related sanctions.    Amsterdam’s district court made the ruling on the subsidiary of Russia’s Alfa Bank in a decision confirmed by the Dutch central bank.…

US shooting: Upscale Washington neighborhood on lockdown as three shot

WASHINGTON, April 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Three people were wounded on Friday after a gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon in an upscale neighborhood of the US capital, police said.    The Connecticut Avenue-Van Ness neighborhood of Washington was on lockdown after the mid-afternoon shooting and residents were evacuated as…

Covid-19: South Africa cases at highest level in months

Officials say the Omicron variant is still the ‘dominant circulating variant PRETORIA, April 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — South Africa is witnessing a “worrying” spike in coronavirus cases after a relative lull in new infections, official data showed.    Daily official updates released by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on…

One killed, several injured as 5.7 quake shakes Bosnia: reports

SARAJEVO, April 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A 5.7-magnitude earthquake rocked southern Bosnia late Friday, killing one person and injuring several others, local media reports said.    A 28-year-old woman who was injured when a rock fell on her house in the town of Stolac, near Mostar, died in hospital, a medical…

Covid-19: Over 17 million vaccinated as 24 test positive in Kenya

NAIROBI, April 23 (NNN-KBC) — The Kenyan government has administered a total of 17,849,742 Covid-19 vaccines across the country the Ministry of Health has said. Of these, 16,322,538 are doses administered to the adult population. In a statement by the Ministry of Health, another 1,232,435 are doses administered to those between 15…

Cameroon, FAO sign five-year agreement to improve food security, nutrition

YAOUNDE, April 23 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Friday signed a Country Programming Framework (CPF) with Cameroon, which will help improve agriculture, food security, nutrition and natural resources management in the Central African nation over the next five years. The signing event…

Chile’s ongoing drought causes drop in mining production

Los Pelambres copper mine has been one of the company’s operations hardest hit by the lack of rainfall in Chile SANTIAGO, April 23 (NNN-Xinhua) — Chile’s ongoing drought has affected mining production in the northern part of the country, causing a drop in output at Antofagasta Minerals, one of the…