The World Health Organization (WHO) has authorized the emergency use of the Indian CovovaxTM covid-19 vaccine. This is the ninth covid-19 vaccine approved by the WHO. It is the first vaccine produced by the Serological Institute of India and licensed from the US laboratory Novavax that is designed from proteins that trigger...
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Government foresees economic recovery next year
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, foresees the recovery of the economy in 2022, a year that may be marked by the start of natural gas production in Mozambique. According to Filipe Nyusi, the year about to end brought a glimmer of hope when the Mozambican economy managed to grow by 1.78% against the negative performance of minus 1.8% in...
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Domestic poultry farmers turn to fertile eggs from Europe to meet demand
The national poultry industry is forced to import fertile eggs from countries like Portugal, Spain and Turkey, when they used to acquire them in neighboring South Africa, which, in the meantime, reduced its production because of the covid-19 pandemic. According to national aviculturists, this change has as immediate consequences, the increase in price of the chicks and their late development,...
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Consultation about the feasibility of building the cement plant in Macuse has started
The Administrator of Namacurra, in Zambezia, urges the shareholders of the project of construction of the cement factory of Macuse, to elaborate a plan of mitigation of the eventual environmental damages. According to Moura Xavier, who was speaking this Friday, the output of the second public consultation aiming at the viability of the project for the construction of the cement factory in...
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Restart of passenger and cargo train circulation on the Nampula-Cuamba route
This Saturday, the circulation of the train transporting people and goods on the Nampula-Cuamba route resumed. The circulation of this means of transport had been interrupted last November due to a short circuit registered in the generator of the locomotive that makes the Nampula-Cuamba route and vice-versa. The governor of Nampula, Manuel Rodrigues, went to check on the...
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Augusta Maíta challenges fish farmers to increase production
The Minister of Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries, Augusta Maíta, urges the fish farmers of Manica province to increase their production in view of the growing needs in the country. Speaking in Sussudenga district at the beginning of a working visit, the Minister referred that the sector is betting on fish farming given the importance of the protein that...
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Turkey pledges to donate 15 million doses of vaccine to Africa
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged today that he will send 15 million doses of anti-covid vaccines to Africa. At a meeting that brought together dozens of African leaders in Istanbul, Erdogan announced that Turkey would take charge of delivering the 15 million doses intended to contain the spread of the pandemic on the continent, in...
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Ireland, Austria, Germany and Denmark Adopt New Restrictions to Stop Omicron Variant
Ireland, Austria, Germany and Denmark this Friday put forward new measures to stop the spread of the Omicron variant of the new coronavirus. Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin announced the introduction of an 8:00 p.m. curfew for pubs, bars and restaurants by the end of January to combat Omicron, which is considered to be a...
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Portugal resumes flights with Mozambique, but with imposition of anti-covid tests and quarantine
The Portuguese government announced this Friday, the resumption of essential flights with Mozambique and the rest of the Southern African countries. According to the Portuguese government's order, the resumption of flights must observe control measures for the new variant of covid-19, Omicron which has been spreading rapidly in the world. "Authorize essential travel...
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Maputo will soon start tests in communities and bus terminals
Maputo city health authorities will start testing for covid-19 in communities and bus terminals in response to the fourth wave of the virus. The measure aims to cope with the increase in the number of daily positive cases of covd-19 in the country's capital. To this end, the health service of the...