{"id":987522004,"date":"2021-04-29T03:10:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/vaccine-purchase-wb-to-provide-500m-more\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:26:21","slug":"vaccine-purchase-wb-to-provide-500m-more","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/vaccine-purchase-wb-to-provide-500m-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine Purchase: WB to provide $500m more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank has agreed to provide $500 million to Bangladesh in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2021\/04\/14\/bangladesh-receives-over-1-billion-world-bank-financing-for-vaccination-and-responding-to-covid-19-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">additional financing<\/a> to buy Covid-19 vaccines.&nbsp;The main objective of the WB&#8217;s additional financing for this project is &#8212; vaccination of 31 percent of the total population of the country through direct purchase of Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>A loan agreement was signed between the government and the Washington-based global lender yesterday in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>With this deal, the government inked three loan agreements with the WB in the last two days through virtual programmes. The WB is providing the country with $1.04 billion to implement three projects, including purchase of vaccines.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is an extract from the news report originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailystar.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Daily Star<\/a>. You can find it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailystar.net\/frontpage\/news\/vaccine-purchase-wb-provide-500m-more-2077285\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ips-dc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Packaging-of-ampoules-with-the-vaccine-COVID-19-in-hand.-Close-up.-Money-on-the-background.jpg?fit=1280%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for Policy Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about Bangladesh&#8217;s approach in addressing the demand for finances for COVID 19 health crisis? Please let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank has agreed to provide $500 million to Bangladesh in additional financing to buy Covid-19 vaccines.&nbsp;The main objective of the WB&#8217;s additional financing for this project is &#8212; vaccination of 31 percent of the total population of the country through direct purchase of Covid-19 vaccine. A loan agreement was signed between the government&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530865,"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\/987522004"}],"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=987522004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}