{"id":987524671,"date":"2021-04-13T03:37:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T02:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/over-1-1-bn-to-extend-australias-covid-19-health-response\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:31:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:31:53","slug":"over-1-1-bn-to-extend-australias-covid-19-health-response","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/over-1-1-bn-to-extend-australias-covid-19-health-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Over $ 1.1 bn to Extend Australia&#8217;s Covid 19 Health Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Government&nbsp;invests more than $1.1 billion to extend their successful national COVID-19 health response and suppression strategy until 31 December 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This $1.1 billion is in addition to more than $22 billion spent in these areas to date, including more than $6 billion to support the COVID-19 vaccine roll out.<\/p>\n<p>This investment will extend their&nbsp;partnership with the states and territories to manage COVID-19, by sharing 50 per cent of the cost of testing and treating people with COVID-19 through our public hospitals, and of public health measures to prevent the spread. To date the Commonwealth has provided an additional $5 billion to support the states and territories, including $1 billion in additional public hospital funding among other things.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the Australian Government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pm.gov.au\/media\/over-11-billion-extend-australias-covid-19-health-response#:~:text=Over%20%241.1%20billion%20to%20extend%20Australia's%20COVID%2D19%20health%20response,-Media%20release&amp;text=The%20Government%20will%20invest%20more,COVID%2D19%20pandemic%20and%20recession\">Press release from the desk of the Prime Minister here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/media-exp1.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/C4E12AQHDGml_wUArmA\/article-cover_image-shrink_600_2000\/0\/1560400712650?e=1622073600&amp;v=beta&amp;t=bCoVxTQQV2gXtyAblta6SKlxU2pXohRZKBvh85jjdVg\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Government&nbsp;invests more than $1.1 billion to extend their successful national COVID-19 health response and suppression strategy until 31 December 2021.&nbsp; This $1.1 billion is in addition to more than $22 billion spent in these areas to date, including more than $6 billion to support the COVID-19 vaccine roll out. This investment will extend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987531240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[123,2316,124,129,132,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524671"}],"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=987524671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987531240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}