{"id":987524527,"date":"2021-06-01T03:36:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T02:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/malaysia-boosts-healthcare-funding-to-fight-surge-in-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:20:28","slug":"malaysia-boosts-healthcare-funding-to-fight-surge-in-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/malaysia-boosts-healthcare-funding-to-fight-surge-in-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia boosts healthcare funding to fight surge in COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia&#8217;s government will increase COVID-19 healthcare spending by another 200 million ringgit ($48.3 million) to help tackle a surge in cases during recent weeks, the state news agency reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The funding boost brings the government&#8217;s total healthcare allocations to fight the coronavirus to 1 billion ringgit, along with a further 5 billion ringgit earmarked last month for the purchase and roll out of vaccines, the Bernama agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>($1 = 4.1390 ringgit)<\/p>\n<p><em>To know more read the entire news report originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20210522112715-x5auy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomson Reuters Foundation News here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn-a.william-reed.com\/var\/wrbm_gb_food_pharma\/storage\/images\/publications\/food-beverage-nutrition\/foodnavigator-asia.com\/article\/2020\/03\/24\/covid-19-and-apac-s-food-and-beverage-sector-all-our-coronavirus-news-in-one-place\/10835177-1-eng-GB\/COVID-19-and-APAC-s-food-and-beverage-sector-All-our-coronavirus-news-in-one-place_wrbm_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food Navigator-Asia.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about Covid 19 health financing in Malaysia? Please let us know in the Comments Section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia&#8217;s government will increase COVID-19 healthcare spending by another 200 million ringgit ($48.3 million) to help tackle a surge in cases during recent weeks, the state news agency reported on Saturday. The funding boost brings the government&#8217;s total healthcare allocations to fight the coronavirus to 1 billion ringgit, along with a further 5 billion ringgit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[123,2316,124,129,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524527"}],"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=987524527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}