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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 09 April 2020
In brief: US makes funds available to Honduras to combat Covid-19
* The US embassy in Honduras has announced that US$8.9m will be reassigned and made available through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the Honduran government led by President Juan Orlando Hernández to combat coronavirus (Covid-19). According to a US embassy press release, the funds will be used for various purposes: to expand and improve attention capacity in health centres; to help the education ministry design distance learning strategies for the country’s over 1.6m students; and to support the safe reintegration of repatriated Hondurans. The assistance will also help the private sector to optimise its capabilities during the emergency, and to promote economic reactivation once emergency measures are lifted. As regards the former point, USAID will work with the private sector and Honduras’s industrial manufacturing sector to analyse the possibility of manufacturing health supplies and protective equipment. After quarantine measures are lifted, USAID will design financial and non-financial strategies to help revive the economy. Yesterday the Hernández government announced it was extending quarantine measures until 19 April.
