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Mayschoss (Germany), Jul 21 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Friedemann Vogel) The German federal government and the governments of the federal states will allocate an aid of 400 million euros to those affected by the floods in the west of the country, in which at least 170 people have died.FOOTAGE OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE AHR RIVER OVERFLOW, IN MAYSCHOSS, IN THE DISTRICT OF AHRWEILER, GERMANY.
A shipment of nearly four million coronavirus jabs arrives in Nigeria, making Africa's most populous nation the world's third country to receive vaccines under Covax, a global scheme to provide free inoculations. The shipment aboard an Emirates flight arrived shortly before noon at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in the capital Abuja, with 3.94 million Oxford/AstraZeneca doses on board. IMAGES
Global immunisation efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years, according to a World Health Organization study -- the equivalent of six lives saved "every minute", declares WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a press statement in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
Germany announces 1.3 billion euros more in military gear for Ukraine in its fight against Russia, including four further IRIS T-SLM air defence systems as well as artillery ammunition. The package was unveiled by German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius after talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Rustem Umerov in Kyiv. SOUNDBITE
Rwandan President Paul Kagame, African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat, WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin, and Rwandan and African officials inaugurate the start of construction of BioNTech's messenger RNA vaccine production facility in Kigali, Rwanda. IMAGES