{"id":99980,"date":"2020-03-15T15:54:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T22:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99980"},"modified":"2020-03-15T15:54:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T22:54:42","slug":"coronavirus-modi-proposes-covid-19-emergency-fund-for-saarc-nations-offers-10-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/15\/coronavirus-modi-proposes-covid-19-emergency-fund-for-saarc-nations-offers-10-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Modi proposes COVID-19 emergency fund for SAARC nations, offers $10 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Scroll.in<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The prime minister said \u2018prepare but do not panic\u2019 was India\u2019s motto as it tackled the virus.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s01.sgp1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/article\/138380-kyrzllivzj-1584278511.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus: Modi proposes COVID-19 emergency fund for SAARC nations, offers $10 million \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the video conference of SAARC nations to tackle coronavirus on Sunday. |&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BJP4India\/status\/1239168570992386050\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BJP\/Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday proposed to set up a COVID-19 emergency fund for South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation nations to help tackle the spread of the virus, and said India can initially offer $10 million, reported&nbsp;<em>The Hindu<\/em>.Modi had on Friday called on the other seven SAARC nations \u2013 Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka \u2013 to chalk out a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scroll.in\/latest\/956069\/coronavirus-narendra-modi-calls-on-saarc-leaders-to-together-chalk-out-strategy-to-fight-pandemic\">strategy to fight the pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we all know, COVID-19 has recently been classified by the World Health Organisation as a pandemic. So far, our region has listed fewer than 150 cases. But we need to remain vigilant,\u201d Modi said in his opening address. I propose that we create a COVID-19 emergency fund. India can start by contributing $10 million.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Indian prime minister also listed out the country\u2019s experience with the virus, and highlighted various measures taken to prevent its outbreak. We evacuated nearly 1,400 citizens, including some from our neighbouring countries,\u201d Modi said. We recognize other countries are also concerned about safety of citizens in India. So we briefed foreign diplomats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Scroll.in The prime minister said \u2018prepare but do not panic\u2019 was India\u2019s motto as it tackled the virus. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the video conference of SAARC nations to tackle coronavirus on Sunday. |&nbsp;BJP\/Twitter Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday proposed to set up a COVID-19 emergency fund for South Asian Association for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99980","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=99980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}