{"id":987524439,"date":"2021-09-04T03:35:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T02:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/japan-to-use-13-bil-in-reserve-funds-for-covid-measures\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:02:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:02:47","slug":"japan-to-use-13-bil-in-reserve-funds-for-covid-measures","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/japan-to-use-13-bil-in-reserve-funds-for-covid-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to use $13 bil. in reserve funds for COVID measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span>Japan&#8217;s cabinet has approved 1.4 trillion yen ($13 billion) in fiscal 2021 reserve funds. This budget is mainly allocated&nbsp;to purchasing COVID-19 vaccines and securing medicines for patients.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Of the total budget, the government allocated about 841.5 billion yen for the COVID-19 vaccine procurement and vaccine rollout program. Meanwhile, approximately 235.2 billion yen was earmarked to purchase the medicines.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Another 154.9 billion yen was allocated to a no-interest loan program up to 200,000 yen per household for those who were severely affected by the pandemic. To read more, click <a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20210827\/p2g\/00m\/0na\/043000c\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Source: The Mainichi<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Picture b<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>y&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@gabby-k\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabby K<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/5841965\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pexels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s cabinet has approved 1.4 trillion yen ($13 billion) in fiscal 2021 reserve funds. This budget is mainly allocated&nbsp;to purchasing COVID-19 vaccines and securing medicines for patients. Of the total budget, the government allocated about 841.5 billion yen for the COVID-19 vaccine procurement and vaccine rollout program. Meanwhile, approximately 235.2 billion yen was earmarked to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987529267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[123,2316,124,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524439"}],"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=987524439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987529267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}