{"id":50822,"date":"2020-07-25T19:30:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/malawi-to-receive-45-07-million-for-national-covid-19-emergency-response-from-the-african-development-bank\/"},"modified":"2020-07-25T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T17:30:19","slug":"malawi-to-receive-45-07-million-for-national-covid-19-emergency-response-from-the-african-development-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/malawi-to-receive-45-07-million-for-national-covid-19-emergency-response-from-the-african-development-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi to receive $45.07 million for national COVID-19 emergency response from the African Development Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Malawi will receive $45.07 million to finance the government\u2019s response to the health, social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, following a decision by the Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) held Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The package comprises a loan of $24.48 million, and a grant of $20.59 million as direct budget support, and complements an earlier sum of $8.9 million to six countries in the region, including Malawi, under the Bank\u2019s COVID-19 Response grants to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries last month.<\/p>\n

The budget support intervention, will help boost the Malawi National COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Plan that has been developed with multi-stakeholders including government, development partners and non-government organizations. The Bank\u2019s support aims to protect lives; strengthen public health systems; protect livelihoods through enhanced social protection systems; foster economic resilience and protect jobs. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bank\u2019s support to Malawi\u2019s COVID-19 Response Plan will help to cushion the economy from the negative impact on fiscal and current account balances, hence consolidating Malawi\u2019s recovery efforts during this unprecedented time of COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d said Acting Bank Country Manager, Eyerusalem Fasika. \u201cThe support will contribute towards laboratory and diagnostic capacity to test, trace, isolate and treat COVID-19 cases, strengthen the COVID-19 case management systems, train frontline healthcare workforce, and restore services disrupted by COVID-19, particularly for patients with underlying health conditions,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The support to Malawi is part of the multi-country COVID-19 support package by the Bank that includes $41.1 million to Madagascar, $41.1 million to Mozambique and $10.23 million to Sao Tome and Principe. The processing of this multi-country program was \u00a0combined into one group to ensure efficiency in the preparation of \u00a0the Bank\u2019s assistance to Regional Member Countries.<\/p>\n

Malawi declared a State of Disaster on 20 March 2020 and launched its National COVID-19 Preparedness Response Plan on 8 April. As of 21 July 2020, Malawi had recorded 3,149 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 1,256 recoveries and 71 deaths.<\/p>\n

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\nAfrican Development Bank
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