US places Pakistan on high-priority list for Covid-19 assistance

Published March 28, 2020
US has set up a $274 million fund to help the international community in combating the outbreak of this deadly disease. — Reuters/File
US has set up a $274 million fund to help the international community in combating the outbreak of this deadly disease. — Reuters/File

WASHINGTON: The United States has placed Pakistan among the high-priority countries that will receive US assistance for curbing the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus, a senior American official said.

Briefing journalists in Washington on Thursday afternoon on the US response to this pandemic, Bonnie Glick, deputy administrator of the US Agency for International Development said Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Burma and Uzbekistan were also among these high-priority states. The United States has set up a $274 million fund to help the international community in combating the outbreak of this deadly disease.

Published in Dawn, March 28th, 2020

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