{"id":987524404,"date":"2021-10-16T03:35:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T02:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/covid-19-response-gets-funding-boost-in-canberra-australia\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:56:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:56:54","slug":"covid-19-response-gets-funding-boost-in-canberra-australia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/covid-19-response-gets-funding-boost-in-canberra-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 response gets funding boost in Canberra, Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span>In Canberra, Australia, the ACT government allocates approximately $90 million of the 2021-22 ACT budget to support public health response during the COVID-19 pandemic and foster the vaccine rollout.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>In addition, another $22.5 million will be funded for the vaccine program to ensure the availability of vaccines for all eligible populations in Canberra.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Almost $65 million will be funded to manage the impact of the pandemic on the ACT community and provide the Chief Health Officer support to respond to the ongoing and evolving pandemic.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Besides, a $500 million boost&nbsp;will be continuously funded over four years in the 2021-22 budget to increase resourcing in response to a rise of demand for essential health services across the ACT public health system and enhanced complexity of health service delivery.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The initiatives covered the budget&nbsp;focusing on expanding critical hospital services and enhancing community and home-based health services. To read more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.act.gov.au\/our-canberra\/latest-news\/2021\/october\/covid-19-response-gets-funding-boost\">click<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Source: ACT government<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Picture by&nbsp;<span><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@catarina-sousa-9147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span><span><span><span><span>Catarina Sousa<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span>from&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/68704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span><span><span><span>Pexels<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Canberra, Australia, the ACT government allocates approximately $90 million of the 2021-22 ACT budget to support public health response during the COVID-19 pandemic and foster the vaccine rollout. In addition, another $22.5 million will be funded for the vaccine program to ensure the availability of vaccines for all eligible populations in Canberra. Almost $65&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987528832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2316,124,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524404"}],"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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987528832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}