WHO released US$ 2.6 million from its Contingency Fund for Emergencies to kick-start the rapid response. Based on current assessment and response needs the estimated budget for the international response is US$ 18 million for a 3-month operation. The Wellcome Trust and UK Department for International Development (DFID) have announced a commitment of up to \u00a33 million to support a rapid response to the outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited the town of Bikoro in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to assess the response to the current Ebola outbreak. WHO is deploying experts and coordinating partners as well as providing supplies and equipment to provide life-saving care and support infection prevention and control. WHO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[217,10],"tags":[412,55,16],"class_list":["post-6814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-world-news","tag-ebola-virus","tag-who","tag-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"views":36,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/youthdarpan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/virusebola.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthdarpan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthdarpan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthdarpan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthdarpan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthdarpan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youthdarpan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6816,"href":"https:\/\/youthdarpan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions\/6816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthdarpan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthdarpan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthdarpan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthdarpan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}