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US Helping Fund Guyana’s Fight Against COVID-19

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 24, 2020 (CMC) – The United States has committed US$475,000 towards the fight against COVID-19, here.

The US Embassy, yesterday, informed, via its website, that the funds would be released, through the Regional Caribbean Office of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to help address Guyana’s priority areas of laboratory diagnostics and systems strengthening and supplies, surveillance, infection prevention and control, and emergency operation centres.

“Through the generosity of the American people and the leadership of the U.S. government, the United States continues to lead the public health and humanitarian assistance to the COVID-19 pandemic,” the release stated.

The money, it said, is part of that country’s ongoing commitment to Guyana, through the U.S. Caribbean Resiliency Partnership.

It is also part of a regional funding package of US$3 million, provided to support the current COVID-19 Response.

The embassy said the CDC will coordinate with the Ministry of Public Health here, and its regional partners, to disburse the funds “rapidly and implement the activities”.

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