The United States is leading the global response to COVID-19 with foreign assistance funding. The COVID-19 assistance to-date from the State Department and USAID includes the following:More than $490 million in emergency health assistance from USAID’s Global Health Emergency Reserve Fund for Contagious Infectious-Disease Outbreaks and Global Health Programs account. A total of $908 million in humanitarian assistance overall, through International Disaster Assistance and Migration and Refugee Assistance, including: $558 million in humanitarian assistance from USAID’s International Disaster Assistance (IDA) account. Health assistance also will support mobilizing thousands of volunteers in targeted, high-risk Provinces to conduct risk-communications and community-engagement activities. Djibouti: Nearly $3.3 million in total COVID-19 assistance, including $2.5 million in ESF to address the second-order impacts of the pandemic.

Source: Ethiopian News August 21, 2020 17:48 UTC