{"id":2109,"date":"2021-05-01T16:41:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T10:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2021-05-01T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T10:57:03","slug":"us-announces-8-5-million-aid-to-nepal-to-combat-second-covid-19-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/2021\/05\/01\/us-announces-8-5-million-aid-to-nepal-to-combat-second-covid-19-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"US announces $8.5 million aid to Nepal to combat second Covid-19 wave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu<\/strong>: The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announces an additional $8.5 million in emergency response funding to combat the disease and to support the Nepali people.<br><br>The additional assistance will help intensify Nepal\u2019s Covid-19 testing, contact tracing and case investigation, treatment, infection prevention and control, border control, and other work at the federal, provincial and municipal level, the US Embassy in Kathmandu said in a statement.<br><br>Assistance will include support to households and families through life-saving Covid-19 counseling and referrals, nutrition counseling, health care access, ensure the continuity of critical HIV services, and mitigate the secondary impacts of COVID-19, according to the statement.<br><\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The US is donating an additional $8.5 million to Nepal for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> relief. We&#8217;ve been a longtime friend of \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf5&amp; Nepalis. As a nation that has deeply struggled w\/ this virus, the US stands in solidarity w\/ Nepal as it faces COVID-19&#8217;s ruthlessness.<br>Together, we will <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/beatthevirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#beatthevirus<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gsx6KIv6Jy\">pic.twitter.com\/gsx6KIv6Jy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ambassador Randy Berry (@USAmbNepal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USAmbNepal\/status\/1388416427900628993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announces an additional $8.5 million in emergency response funding to combat the disease and to support the Nepali people. The additional assistance will help intensify Nepal\u2019s Covid-19 testing, contact tracing and case investigation, treatment, infection prevention and control, border control, and other work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/US-AId.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcWLTd-y1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}