World Bank supports Ghana’s COVID-19 fight<\/b><\/p>\n Ghana received an additional US$130 million for vaccine purchases – World Bank<\/p>\n Ghana may get further assistance from World Bank – Laporte<\/p>\n Ghana received a sum of US$430 million to fight the novel Coronavirus, World Bank Country Director, Pierre Frank Laporte has revealed.<\/p>\n According to him, the money was initially directed at the various campaigns that sought to inform and educate Ghanaians on the safety protocols of COVID-19.<\/p>\n Speaking on Joy News\u2019 PM Express, Laporte said, \u201cwe\u2019ve provided US$430 million to Ghana to fight COVID-19. And this includes different activities including initially the communication campaign, the sensitization campaign, equipping labs, equipping new facilities to receive patients, to treat patients.\u201d<\/p>\n He added, Ghana received an additional US$130 million from the World Bank which was purposely for the purchase of vaccines.<\/p>\n While the World Bank was actively supporting Ghana\u2019s fight against the novel Coronavirus, it also set into motion several projects to enable the country\u2019s economy to stay afloat.<\/p>\n Pierre Frank Laporte indicated that, these projects were targeted at Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) which are the backbone of Ghana\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n He explained, the World Bank also accelerated the disbursement of projects like the Ghana Economic Transformation projects which targeted SMEs in particular.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Tourism project that was suffering from other places before COVID-19. The Minister has done an excellent job in pushing these activities forward, helping a lot of small businesses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He noted, the World Bank was further accelerating the disbursement of its social protection project while approving US$100 million more to support the project.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, a lot of things are happening. We\u2019re hoping that the Development Bank, the Development Finance will also get resources for small businesses so a lot happened that we\u2019ve done,\u201d Pierre Frank Laporte stressed.<\/p>\n Laporte revealed further on the show that, Ghana could receive a further US$60 million to help in its continuous fight against COVID-19.<\/p>\n \u201cYou see the Omicron variant has reminded us of something that we should never think that COVID will just go away like that. It may go away, it may not. At this point in time, we\u2019re discussing a further tranche of support for COVID-19.<\/p>\n \u201cIf all goes well it should be available early March. We\u2019re looking at US$60million dollars, which 20 will go directly for more vaccines and the 40 for additional treatment centres,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pierre Laporte, World Bank Country Director World Bank supports Ghana’s COVID-19 fight Ghana received an additional US$130 million for vaccine purchases – World Bank Ghana may get further assistance from World Bank – Laporte Ghana received a sum of US$430 million to fight the novel Coronavirus, World Bank Country Director, Pierre Frank Laporte has revealed. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[557,261,1271,85,4224,290,4225,4226,784],"class_list":["post-976404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business","tag-bank","tag-covid19","tag-fight","tag-ghana","tag-laporte","tag-million","tag-received","tag-us430","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Pierre](\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/225\/22577802.295.jpg\" "\\"Pierre")
Pierre Laporte, World Bank Country Director<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n