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Mozambique: Germany to give €17.5M to help fight pandemic
3:32 CAT | 04 Aug 2020
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The German Government announced on Tuesday €17.5 million in aid to Mozambique to fight the Covid-19 pandemic for areas of education, sustainable economic development and biodiversity.
In a statement, the German embassy in Maputo says that the funds will finance social income transfer programs for around 130,000 families over a three-month period and the payment of wages to forest rangers for ten months.
In support of the fight against Covid-19, Germany has already financed the purchase of masks for market vendors, information material with content about the pandemic and advertisements.
German support also helped equip mobile health brigades involved in actions to combat the new coronavirus, the purchase of hygiene items and stress management actions covering 12,250 children.
Mozambique records a total of 1,973 positive cases of Covid-19, 14 deaths and 676 recoveries, according to the latest government update.
The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 689,000 lives and infected more than 18.1 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
After Europe succeeded China as the center of the pandemic in February, the American continent is now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.
Source: Lusa
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