{"id":65221,"date":"2020-05-10T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=65221"},"modified":"2020-05-08T12:40:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T07:40:04","slug":"pakistan-shortlisted-un-covid-19-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-shortlisted-un-covid-19-aid.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan among countries shortlisted for UN COVID-19 aid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The United Nations (UN) on Thursday formally added Pakistan to its list of COVID-19 aid recipients, according to a news source. It also issued an appeal for an additional USD 4.7 billion for coronavirus relief efforts in vulnerable countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These funds are aimed to help curb the spread of the virus and protect millions of lives in these countries. The UN launched its global humanitarian response to curtail the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on March 25, and initially asked for USD 2 billion \u2013 out of which it has received half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/japan-to-offer-additional-unhcr-mediated-funds-to-pakistan-for-covid-19-assistance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Japan to offer additional UNHCR-mediated funds to Pakistan for COVID-19 assistance<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN will use this total sum of USD 6.7 billion for COVID-19 aid purposes until December. It has priotised recipient countries according to vulnerability, with 20 countries such as Afghanistan and Syria, in high priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock said that the coronavirus will most direly affect the poorest countries across the globe. He also reiterated the need for immediate action to tackle the impending rise in hunger, poverty, and conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-to-launch-international-funding-appeal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pakistan to launch international funding appeal for help against coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, apart from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-saarc-emergency-covid-19-fund-pkr-3-million.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan<\/a>, the UN added eight other countries to this list; Benin, Djibouti, Liberia, Mozambique, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The United Nations (UN) on Thursday formally added Pakistan to its list of COVID-19 aid recipients, according to a news source. It also issued an appeal for an additional USD 4.7 billion for coronavirus relief efforts in vulnerable countries. These funds are aimed to help curb the spread of the virus and protect millions of lives in these countries. The UN launched its global humanitarian response to curtail the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on March 25, and initially asked for USD 2 billion \u2013 out of which it has received half. Read: Japan to offer additional UNHCR-mediated funds to Pakistan for COVID-19 assistance The UN will use this total sum of USD 6.7 billion for COVID-19 aid purposes until December. It has priotised recipient countries according to vulnerability, with 20 countries such as Afghanistan and Syria, in high priority. UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock said that the coronavirus will most direly affect the poorest countries across the globe. He also reiterated the need for immediate action to tackle the impending rise in hunger, poverty, and conflict. Read: Pakistan to launch international funding appeal for help against coronavirus Meanwhile, apart from Pakistan, the UN added eight&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":63263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28487,28486,19954],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-covid-19-aid","8":"tag-covid-19-fund","9":"tag-united-nations"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan to receive COVID-19 aid from UN - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pakistan has been added to the list of countries which will recieve COVID-19 aid from the UN, out of its total funding of USD 6.7 billion.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-shortlisted-un-covid-19-aid.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan to receive COVID-19 aid from UN - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pakistan has been added to the list of countries which will recieve COVID-19 aid from the UN, out of its total funding of USD 6.7 billion.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-shortlisted-un-covid-19-aid.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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