The U.S. Senate
Thursday approved a 8.3 billion dollar emergency fund to fight the coronavirus
outbreak.
It was approved one
day after the House of Representatives passed the bill.
The package will be
signed by President Donald Trump in the coming days.
The disease has
spread across the U.S. and has caused the death of 11 people, mostly Washington
State.
California has
declared a state of emergency after more cases of coronavirus were reported,
while cases in New York has reached 22.
Meanwhile, the
Nigerian government was yet to release the N620million earmarked for
Coronavirus as at Wednesday.
Senate President
Ahmad Lawan, in reaction expressed dismay at the state of the Isolation Center
in Gwagwalada, a suburb in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Lawan said it was
sad that not a kobo of the N620 million has been released.
“It is so
unfortunate that Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, with a population of
200 million, yet in the FCT and six surrounding states, the isolation centre is
not ready”.
“We should be
prepared at all times for any eventuality, we had Ebola, now we have
Coronavirus, nobody knows what will happen next.
“If our government
is prepared to release the money, nobody should hold the money back”, NAN
quoted him as saying.
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