{"id":10449,"date":"2020-03-16T04:57:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T04:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=10449"},"modified":"2020-03-16T04:57:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T04:57:05","slug":"covid-19-emergency-fund-for-saarc-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/covid-19-emergency-fund-for-saarc-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Emergency Fund for SAARC countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prime Minister Modi proposed creation of a COVID-19\nEmergency Fund based on voluntary contributions from all the countries, with\nIndia making an initial offer of US $10 million for the fund. The fund can be\nused by any of the partner countries to meet the cost of immediate actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has interacted with the leaders of the SAARC countries\nthrough video conference to chart out a common strategy in order to combat\nCOVID-19 in the region. The fund can be used by any of the partner countries to\nmeet the cost of immediate actions. He informed that India is assembling a\nRapid Response Team of doctors and specialists, along with testing kits and\nother equipment, which will be on stand-by, to be placed at the disposal of the\ncountries, if required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Modi proposed creation of a COVID-19 Emergency Fund based on voluntary contributions from all the countries, with India making an initial offer of US $10 million for the fund. The fund can be used by any of the partner countries to meet the cost of immediate actions. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[914],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-10449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10451,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449\/revisions\/10451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10449"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=10449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}