EFSR provided Tajikistan with $3 million to combat COVID-19 and its consequences

The Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD) will allocate 3 million US dollars to Tajikistan from funds for the implementation of the “Mobile COVID-19 Diagnostics” project.

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As reported by the EFSD press center, the corresponding grant agreement was signed by the Minister of Finance of Tajikistan Faiziddin Sattor Kakhhorzoda and the Acting Executive Director of the EFSD Project Block Andrey Shirokov.

The project will assist the country in combating COVID-19 and the consequences of the pandemic primarily by increasing the availability of necessary medical technical means.

It is reported that the grant funds will be used to purchase 5 mobile sanitary-epidemiological laboratories (MSEL), as well as about 20,000 tests for conducting free COVID-19 analyses among the population of Tajikistan.