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Developing Countries: Coronavirus

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Question for Department for International Development

UIN 46180, tabled on 12 May 2020

Question

Fleur Anderson
Labour
Putney
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to adapt existing programmes to respond to the covid-19 pandemic in developing countries.

Answer

Wendy Morton
Conservative
Aldridge-Brownhills
Commons

Answered on

18 May 2020

We have focused our portfolios to respond to COVID-19 to ensure we are operating as flexibly and quickly as possible, responsive to need and context – and linking the health response with the economic response and social protection. This includes focusing over one hundred existing bilateral health and humanitarian programmes relevant to the COVID-19 response across 35 countries and regions to support developing countries and provide a safety net for the most vulnerable.

The UK is also at the forefront of the multilateral response and we are actively working with international partners to better track, monitor and respond to the impact of COVID-19.

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