The grant includes $100 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) and $14.28 million from the Pandemic Emergency....
The grant includes $100 million credit from the International Development Association and $14.28 million from the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility to prevent, detect and respond to the threat with a specific focus on state level responses.
Grants to states, the World Bank said, would be conditional on states adopting COVID-19 response strategies which are in line with the federal government’s guidelines and strategies. The World Bank Country Director for Nigeria, Shubham Chaudhuri, noted that although Nigeria has ramped up its efforts to contain the COVID-19 outbreak, it still needs to do more at the state level, which is at the frontline of the response.
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