UK to Invest £20m in AU to Tackle Coronavirus in Africa
The United Kingdom has announced that it will invest up to £20 million in the African Union’s new ‘Africa anti-COVID 19 fund’ to tackle coronavirus and save lives.
The UK embassy, in a statement issued on Thursday, said that the fund would tackle the pandemic by recruiting African health experts and deploying them where they are needed most, while also strengthening global tracking of the pandemic, combatting potentially harmful misinformation, providing specialist coronavirus training for health workers and making information about the virus more accessible to the public.
The statement quoted International Development Secretary, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, while announcing the funding on Wednesday, that as the UK faces its biggest peacetime challenge in tackling coronavirus, it has never been more important to work with her partners in Africa to fight disease. Also, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, said the UK funding contribution to the AU would provide important additional support to Nigeria and other countries across Africa, stressing that it was a testament to the fact that the UK stands shoulder to shoulder with Nigeria in its collective challenge to defeat this terrible virus.
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