US State Department officials say more than 18 million dollars will be donated to Afghanistan to fight the coronavirus. “Washington is helping more than 18 million dollars to fight the coronavirus in Afghanistan, 5.6 million of this aid would be spent on health care and nearly 2.4 million would be provided as humanitarian aid,” the State Department said in a statement on Tuesday. “Another $ 10 million in humanitarian aid has been donated to support the United Nations Emergency Response Program to fight Covid-19.”
Earlier, the US embassy in Kabul announced that Washington had allocated 15 million dollars to Afghanistan to fight the COVID-19 virus in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, according to official statistics from the Afghan Ministry of Public Health, the number of people infected with COVID-19 disease across the country has reached more than 1,040 positive cases.
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