{"id":114965,"date":"2021-06-07T15:41:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T22:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=114965"},"modified":"2021-06-07T15:41:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T22:41:34","slug":"swiss-send-covid-aid-supplies-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/06\/07\/swiss-send-covid-aid-supplies-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss send Covid aid supplies to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy\u00a0 swissinfo.ch<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
\"Health
 The testing equipment sent to Sri Lanka is part of Switzerland’s efforts to provide support for other countries struggling to combat the Covid pandemic. Keystone\/Chamila Karunarathne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Swiss foreign ministry says it has shipped medical supplies to Sri Lanka to help the country combat the Covid-19 pandemic.This content was published on June 7, 2021 – 18:36June 7, 2021 – 18:36swissinfo.ch\/ug<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The supplies include half a million antigen tests, 50 ventilators, 150 oxygen concentrators and testing material worth CHF3.5 million ($3.9 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An aircraft bound for Colombo left Zurich with 16 tonnes of supplies on board on Monday, according to a foreign ministry statementExternal link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Swiss embassy to Sri Lanka is in close contact with the local authorities to ensure that the supplies are distributed fairly and in line with humanitarian principle\u201d, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, Switzerland also contributed CHF1 million to Sri Lanka\u2019s efforts to contain the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is the third Covid supply mission by the Swiss Humanitarian Aid unit to a country in south-east Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent weeks, 13 tonnes of supplies were sent to India<\/a> and 30 tonnes to Nepal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Swiss foreign ministry says its aid unit is ready to provide as much support as it can upon request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy\u00a0 swissinfo.ch The Swiss foreign ministry says it has shipped medical supplies to Sri Lanka to help the country combat the Covid-19 pandemic.This content was published on June 7, 2021 – 18:36June 7, 2021 – 18:36swissinfo.ch\/ug The supplies include half a million antigen tests, 50 ventilators, 150 oxygen concentrators and testing material worth CHF3.5 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}