{"id":987521884,"date":"2021-06-04T03:09:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T02:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/sri-lanka-to-receive-aid-from-australia-as-part-of-the-latters-new-health-security-initiative\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:19:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:19:06","slug":"sri-lanka-to-receive-aid-from-australia-as-part-of-the-latters-new-health-security-initiative","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/sri-lanka-to-receive-aid-from-australia-as-part-of-the-latters-new-health-security-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to receive aid from Australia as part of the latter&#8217;s new Health Security Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Marise Payne, announced that Australia will provide AUD 5.5 million in funding to Sri Lanka as part of a new Health Security initiative to support the Sri Lankan Government\u2019s COVID-19 response.<\/p>\n<p>The new initiative will assist the Sri Lankan Government to protect its frontline workers against COVID-19 and expand the capacity of its health system to prepare and respond to the current outbreak and pandemics into the future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s overall package of support to Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID-19 response totals AUD 11.7 million (LKR 1,787 million) and is focused on bolstering health security.<\/p>\n<p><em>To know more read the entire news article originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/island.lk\/australia-and-sri-lanka-announce-new-health-security-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sunday Island here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyexpress.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Australia.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Express<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about Sri Lanka&#8217;s financial partnership with Australia for its Covid 19 response? Please let us know in the Comments Section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Marise Payne, announced that Australia will provide AUD 5.5 million in funding to Sri Lanka as part of a new Health Security initiative to support the Sri Lankan Government\u2019s COVID-19 response. The new initiative will assist the Sri Lankan Government to protect its frontline workers against COVID-19 and expand the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[117,124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987521884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}