The United States says it will monitor $32.8m it gifted Nigeria to tackle the Coronavirus pandemic in the country...
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This was made known on Wednesday by the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, stressing that the judicious utilisation of the financial aide is important.
Speaking in a teleconference with select-journalists, Beth revealed that since the COVID-19 crisis begun, the US has committed $237m to support Africa’s COVID-19 response with the global interventions amounting to $2.4bn.
She added that the US not only donated ventilators to Nigeria, but that the US government has a very robust presence of the US Centre for Disease Control (CDS) and the US Aids (USAID) working closely with the Nigerian authorities to transform the country’s COVID-19 response.
“We are very pleased to be making these commitments to Nigeria. We are very eager to collaborate on measures for curing, mitigating and preventing the spread of the virus,” she said.
