NEW DELHI -- The Indian government Tuesday said 313 healthcare workers were killed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

"As on January 22, 2021, COVID-19 has so far claimed the lives of 162 doctors, 107 nurses and 44 accredited social health activist (ASHA) workers in the country," junior health minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey told the upper house of the Indian parliament.

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ULAN BATOR -- The Mongolian government will provide all possible support to implement the policy to provide housing accommodations for citizens, Prime Minister Luvsannamsrai Oyun-Erdene said Tuesday.

"In order to create a prosperous middle-class in the country, we must first provide our citizens with housing, and quality and accessible education and health care. That is why the government will provide all possible support for implementing its housing policy targeting ordinary citizens, especially youths," said Oyun-Erdene.

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WINDHOEK -- Namibia will minimize importing agriculture products and prioritize creating market access for locally produced goods to stimulate economic growth, Minister of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform Calle Schlettwein said Tuesday.

"We have seen that the Namibia Agronomic Board (NAB) is doing a good job in minimizing imports of agriculture and horticulture products that can be produced locally. We have since laid a plan to improve production in our green scheme projects by improving the irrigation systems there as a way of giving local farmers a better chance to improve their farming techniques," he said.

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WINDHOEK -- Namibia faces difficulties in preserving lives as well as stimulating economic growth and prosperity in the midst of a devastating COVID-19 pandemic, Namibian President Hage Geingob said on Tuesday while officially opening the cabinet session of the year.

"The pandemic has left untold suffering among our people with many lives lost prematurely. I sincerely hope that the resilience of Namibians will help us rebuild our country," he said.

"The path to recovery will need the effort of everyone. We need to engage in constructive discourse and implement programs that affect our lives," he said.

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GENEVA -- China's contribution to the conservation of global wetlands and biodiversity is vital, said the head of an intergovernmental environmental treaty on Tuesday, urging the international community to strengthen efforts to save and restore the ecosystems crucial to human survival.

"China has been championing some very interesting initiatives domestically at the national level, with many activities going through the provincial levels to the cities," Martha Rojas Urrego, secretary general of the Ramsar Convention, told Xinhua on World Wetlands Day, which falls on Feb. 2 each year. Enditem

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