{"id":987524285,"date":"2022-02-03T03:34:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T02:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/south-african-government-increases-funding-to-the-fight-against-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:23:37","slug":"south-african-government-increases-funding-to-the-fight-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/south-african-government-increases-funding-to-the-fight-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"South African government increases funding to the fight against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The government of South Africa, in May 2021 committed an extra R4 billion to procure (over 260 million USD) COVID-19 vaccines and extend a special distress grant to thousands of people hit by the pandemic. The news was presented in a special appropriation bill tabled by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni in May, 2021. R1.25 billion has been allocated to the department of health to purchase COVID-19 vaccines and another R2.82 billion to social development for the distress grant of R350 per person. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>(1 R South African Rand= 0.065 USD United States Dollar)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>More about the news can be found <\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/government-allocates-an-extra-r4bn-to-fight-covid-19-550c8ec4-9383-4977-8acc-372da50b3f45\"><span><span>here<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of South Africa, in May 2021 committed an extra R4 billion to procure (over 260 million USD) COVID-19 vaccines and extend a special distress grant to thousands of people hit by the pandemic. The news was presented in a special appropriation bill tabled by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni in May, 2021. R1.25 billion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":987530560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2316,124,131,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524285"}],"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\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}