{"id":94562,"date":"2020-05-08T03:29:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T03:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/us-provides-15-6-million-to-afghanistan-to-fight-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2020-05-08T03:29:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T03:29:20","slug":"us-provides-15-6-million-to-afghanistan-to-fight-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/us-provides-15-6-million-to-afghanistan-to-fight-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"US provides $ 15.6 million to Afghanistan to fight COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/pictures\/fileman\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/May\/8\/Corona%20pic.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The United States is providing over 30 million USD of financial assistance to Afghanistan, Colombia and Mongolia in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United States Department of State.<\/p>\n<p>According to an official statement, this amount includes 15.6 million USD to Afghanistan in support to surveillance, laboratories improvements, case-management, infection prevention and control, community engagement, and technical assistance, as well as 5 million USD of assistance for communities displaced as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>It also includes 12.6 million USD to help the Colombian authorities efforts, including surveillance, water and sanitation supplies provision, case-management, and support to local authorities and local communities; and 1.2 million USD to assist Mongolia in preparing laboratory systems, activating case-finding and event-based surveillance, and supporting technical experts for response and preparedness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of three countries requested assistance through NATO&rsquo;s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC). The EADRCC is NATO&rsquo;s principal disaster response mechanism, the Alliance said.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre operates on a 24\/7 basis, coordinating requests from NATO Allies and partners, as well as offers of assistance to cope with the consequences of major crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/share\/clipdata_200508_130041_833.sdoc--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The United States is providing over 30 million USD of financial assistance to Afghanistan, Colombia and Mongolia in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Unit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}