{"id":6240,"date":"2020-04-17T13:18:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=6240"},"modified":"2020-04-17T13:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:21:34","slug":"usa-prioritizes-pakistan-in-fight-against-corona-virus-ambassador-paul-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/usa-prioritizes-pakistan-in-fight-against-corona-virus-ambassador-paul-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Prioritizes Pakistan in Fight Against Corona Virus -Ambassador Paul Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6241\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Paul_W._Jones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Paul_W._Jones.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Paul_W._Jones-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Paul_W._Jones-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Islamabad, April 17, 2020 \u2013 In a video message released today on the U.S. Mission to Pakistan\u2019s social media platforms,<strong> Ambassador Paul Jones<\/strong> discussed several new ways that the United States is partnering with Pakistan to combat coronavirus.\u00a0 With more than $8 million in new contributions, the United States is collaborating with the Government of <strong>Pakistan<\/strong> to help stop the spread of coronavirus nationwide and to care for afflicted people.\u00a0 All of these contributions were identified as top priority needs by the Pakistani authorities, and they are fully paid for by the American people.<\/p>\n<p>This funding will be utilized for a number of activities, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Providing three new mobile labs so Pakistanis living in virus hotspots can be tested, treated, and monitored to stop the spread, through $3 million in contributions.<\/li>\n<li>Funding high-tech emergency operations centers in Islamabad, Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan with $1 million.<\/li>\n<li>Expanding our partnership with $2 million to train community healthcare workers to assist people in their homes to lessen the burden on hospitals.<\/li>\n<li>Conducting life-saving activities in Afghan refugee and host communities in Pakistan with $2.4 million, administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019ve described today is the latest chapter in a long, vibrant U.S.-Pakistan <strong>health partnership<\/strong>.\u00a0 It builds on U.S. contributions over the past 20 years of more than $1.1 billion in the health sector, and more than $18.4 billion overall to the U.S.-Pakistan development partnership.\u00a0 Together, we can stop the spread of this deadly disease to protect our loved ones and regain our prosperity and freedom,\u201d said U.S. Ambassador Paul W. Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, April 17, 2020 \u2013 In a video message released today on the U.S. Mission to Pakistan\u2019s social media platforms, Ambassador Paul Jones discussed several new ways that the United States is partnering with Pakistan to combat coronavirus.\u00a0 With more than $8 million in new contributions, the United States is collaborating with the Government of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,91],"tags":[198,48,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6243,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions\/6243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}