COVID-19: GERMANY TO ASSIST NIGERIA WITH €5.5M
Germany has pledged to assist Nigeria financially in its response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The German embassy in Nigeria disclosed this on Twitter, via its official twitter handle.
The country said it is donating 5.5million euros this time to support vulnerable people in Nigeria’s North-Eastern states of Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe.
The statement reads: “Germany provides an additional €5.5 million (c. 2.2bn Naira) to the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Nigeria to continue life-saving aid in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe States in the context of the COVID-19 crisis.
“Ongoing activities include drilling of wells, construction of sanitation facilities, rehabilitation of buildings or construction of shelters for internally displaced persons and other victims of insecurity in the North East.
“This brings Germany’s contribution to the NHF to a tota of €29 million since it became operational in May 2017, making Germany a major donor to the NHF over the past three years.”
The country also pledged €12 million to West Africa Health Organisation and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for the purchase of vital medical supplies and laboratory equipment, training measures, amongst other responses to the pandemic in the region.
Also, the country said that it would provide the Nigeria Police Force with €20,000 worth of personal protective equipment (PPE), including hand disinfectant, protective clothing, surface disinfectant, face masks, clinical thermometers, and gloves. All these palliatives would be handed over to the federal government in Abuja shortly.
According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, 41 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in Borno, one in Adamawa, while Yobe has no reported case yet.
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